Exclusive: Top health policy researcher found to have plagiarized

Dr. H. Gilbert Welch of Dartmouth College is one of the country’s most prominent health policy scholars, but an investigation has found that he committed research misconduct, including plagiarizing from two other researchers. The investigation, which was done by Dartmouth, concluded that Welch “knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly appropriate[ed] the ideas, processes, results, or words” of others for a paper about breast cancer screening and overdiagnosis that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Welch challenged the findings, saying that the paper was a “natural progression” of his research. More here.