title: Ethical watchdog's just desserts.
abstract: The US scientific community continues to make heavy weather of the policing of scientific misconduct, chiefly because federal agencies cannot act without being forced to be courts of law. But now there is a chance to undo one mistake.
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D004989:Ethics; D035082:Federal Government; D033161:Government Regulation; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D012106:Research; D014481:United States