Scientific misconduct : the CNRS announces penalties against two senior researchers
In recent months the CNRS has conducted two new disciplinary procedures for scientific misconduct involving two CNRS senior researchers. Patrice Dunoyer was penalized with a demotion in rank, and Olivier Voinnet with an official reprimand. These two new disciplinary procedures for scientific misconduct involve Olivier Voinnet, a CNRS senior researchers who is currently on temporary assignment at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and Patrice Dunoyer, a CNRS senior researcher who is currently on temporary assignment at the Secretariat General of South Province, New Caledonia. These procedures follow upon the establishment of a scientific investigative committee that conducted an in-depth examination of the scientific practices and approaches of the two researchers. These two scientists had already been the subjects of a disciplinary procedure in 2015 1 . As a result of the lapses identified at the time, the authors published corrections for the articles that had been called into question. The two procedures from 2018 concern some of these corrections, as well as new publications.
