Recent content by Chemguy

I reported to HR and 2 months later got a call from an investigator who knows nothing about chemistry. I told him in my opinion and according to my training what occurred with felony lab fraud. That was over 2 months ago. Since then - nothing. No other chemists has looked at the data and given...

Nothing in any of my training tells me when I have to report something to the FBI or the EPA Office of Inspector General. All it says is to report to lab management which I did. They did not act properly and the ethics procedure doesn't explicitly say what to do if management covers up lab...

Other bosses have tried to fire me before, but I won. I'm even better at documenting now to save myself. As a scientist it seem to me tat the best thing to do is follow procedure. However in lab language the word 'should' doesn't mean 'must'. I believe it is that way in legal language too. But...

The audit didn't turn up anything because the management hid it from the auditors. The lab manual says laboratory personnel are expected to report verbally, or in writing, any suspected unethical conduct or activities to the area Program Chief/Supervisor, Ethics and Compliance Officer, or...

I don't seen any threads about fraud at labs. I am a chemist and last year I had a supervisor who told me to run an ion chromatographer in a way that would not work for nitrite analysis in drinking water. Low levels would not be visible because of interference from carbonate at the eluent...