Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Oransky, I'd like to begin my questions with you.
As we heard in your opening statement, Retraction Watch reports on scientific misconduct and retractions by many corporations. I have many questions regarding much of the things you've said, but one thing I wanted to draw to the attention of the committee was something that you had on your website. It is an article on your website titled, “Psychiatrist in Canada faked brain imaging data in grant application, U.S. Federal Watchdog says”.
I read in Retraction Watch that Romina Mizrahi received grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for nearly three million Canadian dollars and worked on this in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, where it appears that none of her papers have been retracted yet.
My question is, by rewarding the pursuit of publishing, how are we getting taxpayer dollars valued in this?