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Whistle-Blowing

Medspeak-UK Disclosure by an employee of genuine concerns about crimes, illegality, negligence, miscarriages of justice, or danger to health and safety or the environment, when these have been ignored or covered up by the employer or by a fellow-employee
Research ethics The act of informing superiors or authorities of another person’s alleged wrong-doings; whistle-blowing in science is used in the context of research fraud, alleged fraud or blatant misinterpretation of data

whistle-blowing

The act of informing authorities of another person's alleged wrong-doings; WB in science is used in the context of research fraud, alleged fraud or blatant misinterpretation of data. See Baltimore affair, 'Dingellization.', Fraud in science, Qui tam suit.

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