Response from the UK Research Integrity Office

The UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) welcomes your recent series on research misconduct. It is incorrect, however, to suggest that UKRIO is ceasing its operations.1 We continue to fulfil our remit: provision of independent and expert support on issues of research conduct to all involved in research. The number of cases that UKRIO deals with—more than …

[1]  F. Godlee Institutional and editorial misconduct in the MMR scare , 2011, BMJ : British Medical Journal.

[2]  Harvey Marcovitch,et al.  Is research safe in their hands? , 2011, BMJ : British Medical Journal.