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Whistleblower News from the Inside - July 11, 2014

Posted  July 11, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

New whistleblower retaliation legislation proposed – Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) will introduce legislation Tuesday that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees who retaliate against whistleblowers.  Washington Post

Snowden’s life still in danger?  — Russian officials think so and have said that Russia will likely approve Snowden’s application to continue his asylum in the next few days.  Washington Post

Ponzi schemes still going strong — State and federal financial regulators say that despite exposure of Madoff fraud, a new Ponzi scheme operator is found nearly every week, and legal actions are brought against about 100 such questionable investment operations every year.   Dealbook

Science journal pulls 60 papers for fraud — A scientific journal has retracted 60 papers linked to a researcher in Taiwan, accusing him of “perverting the peer-review process” by creating fraudulent online accounts to judge the papers favorably and help get them published.  New York Times

The problem with Facebook’s secret research – the legal and ethical implications of Facebook’s secret experiment that manipulated users’ news feeds to determine something called emotional contagion.  Huffington Post

Crackdown on scientific fraudsters – op-ed on how most researchers who engage in wrongdoing, even serious wrongdoing, continue to conduct research at their institutions and why federal agencies that fund scientific research need to be more diligent in busting scientific fraud.  New York Times