Sure. We are primarily concerned with private pressures on university research and are increasingly finding cases where there has been interference by a private sponsor on either the accurate representation of results, as in the case with this Wiarton experiment, where it seems quite apparent that the results were suppressed in the interest of promoting this new potential disinfectant for drinking water....
We're also concerned with the fact that there are a number of research contracts being signed with secrecy clauses, which was the case with Nancy Olivieri's scandal. She was put in a position where she felt that the lives of her research subjects were potentially endangered and that she was not in a legal position to expose those results. Now, she was brave and decided it was important enough to move forward with them.
I think for students in particular it's increasingly a problem, because they are not the ones who are in a position, often, to be signing the research contracts with private sponsors; they're subject to the influence of their supervisors.
In fact, The Chronicle of Higher Education, a publication that does a lot of writing on issues around research in education, predominantly in North America, has actually published a number of survey results recently on the increasing incidence of misconduct in university research. In the United States, they are reporting that one in three researchers has admitted to research misconduct or some kind of wrongdoing.