Litigating multimillion-dollar scientific fraud cases | Eugenie Reich

Eugenie Reich is an attorney committed to taking on scientific fraud, understanding the incentives that drive it, and recovering misdirected research funding. She is also a former investigative science journalist committed to correcting the scientific record. Her 2009 book Plastic Fantastic, details a major fraud cause in physics at Bell Labs. Two of the cases she has litigated cases were against Biogen ($900 million settlement), and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ($15 million settlement).

CONTACT RANDY:
metasciencematters@gmail.com

EPISODE LINKS:
Cargo Cult Science: https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3043/1/CargoCult.pdf

The PubPeer Conundrum: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/08989621.2024.2390007

New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/

Skeptical Inquirer: https://skepticalinquirer.org/

Special thanks to Dylan Bouscher

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
4:20 - How Eugenie became interested in science
6:25 - Interest in scientific fraud
7:38 - Deciding to become a science journalist
8:58 - Fraud in physics at Bell Labs (the subject of her 2009 book Plastic Fantastic)
20:15 - Bell Labs coming under private ownership
22:53 - Interviewing scientists for her book
26:50 - The response from the physics community
31:10 - Deciding to become a lawyer
33:28 - The False Claims Act
36:29 - The qui tam provision of the False Claims Act
37:46 - The $900M case against Biogen
44:02 - The day-to-day of working on this case
46:30 - Impact of the case on biotech and pharma
48:40 - The $15M case against Dana-Farber
50:42 - Do universities have an incentive to protect accused researchers?
54:15 - Is the scale of fraud too large to be fixed?
57:56 - Does fraud damage public trust in science?
1:00:44 - Tools/solutions to combat these problems
1:04:32 - Advice to practicing scientists
1:05:55 - Advice and resources for listeners
1:08:28 - Outro

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