[')', 'l', 'Services', 'of', 'Mead', 'Data', 'Central', 'PAGE', '109', '(c)', '1988', 'Los', 'Angeles', 'Times,', 'April', '9,', '1988', 'He', 'added:', '“It', "doesn't", 'strike', 'me', 'as', 'appropriate', 'for', 'two', 'scientists', 'who', 'have', 'no', 'background', 'in', 'immunology', 'to', 'set', 'themselves', 'up', 'as', 'judge', 'and', 'jury', 'over', 'whatever', 'paper', 'comes', 'to', 'their', 'attention.', '.', '.', '.', 'They', 'may', 'themselves', 'be', 'perfectly', 'well-meaning', 'people,', 'but', 'their', 'activities', 'are', 'already', 'having', 'an', 'inhibitory', 'effect', 'on', 'scientific', 'communication.”', 'Baltimore', 'said', 'MIT', 'and', 'Tufts', 'officials', 'have', 'reviewed', 'the', 'allegations', 'and', 'found', 'them', 'groundless.', 'NIH', 'Investigation', 'In', 'addition,', 'he', 'said', 'he', 'helped', 'initiate', 'an', 'ongoing', 'confidential', 'investigation', 'by', 'the', "NIH's", 'office', 'of', 'extramural', 'research', 'and', 'is', 'cooperating', '"fully."', 'This', 'is', 'the', 'normal', 'procedure', 'when', 'allegations', 'are', 'made', 'about', 'any', 'federally', 'funded', 'biomedical', 'research,', 'such', 'as', 'the', 'MIT', 'study.', 'The', 'results', 'of', 'that', 'inquiry', 'will', 'not', 'be', 'made', 'public', 'until', 'the', 'review', 'is', 'complete,', 'a', 'process', 'that', 'can', 'take', 'months', 'to', 'years.', '(While', 'Feder', 'and', 'Stewart', 'work', 'at', 'NIH,', 'they', 'have', 'no', 'connection', 'to', 'the', 'official', 'probe.)', 'Feder', 'and', 'Stewart', 'have', 'used', 'similar', 'tactics', 'in', 'the', 'past.', 'In', 'a', 'highly', 'publicized', 'case,', 'they', 'took', 'to', 'task', 'the', 'co-authors', 'of', 'an', 'ambitious', 'Harvard', 'University', 'heart', 'researcher', 'who', 'fabricated', 'data', 'that', 'formed', 'the', 'basis', 'for', 'more', 'than', '100', 'journal', 'articles.', 'A', 'key', 'difference', 'is', 'that', 'these', 'allegations', 'were', 'based', 'on', 'a', 'review', 'of', 'published', 'articles,', 'not', 'raw', 'laboratory', 'data.', 'Their', 'controversial', '1983', 'paper', 'on', 'that', 'case', 'finally', 'appeared', 'in', 'the', 'British', 'journal', 'Nature', 'in', 'January,', '1986,', 'after', 'prolonged', 'negotiations.', 'Feder', 'and', 'Stewart', 'are', 'scheduled', 'to', 'testify', 'on', 'scientific', 'misconduct', 'Monday', 'before', 'a', 'House', 'subcommittee', 'of', 'the', 'Government', 'Operations', 'Committee', 'and', 'on:', 'Tuesday', 'at', 'a', 'Similar', 'hearing:', 'being', 'held', 'by', 'a', 'House', 'subcommittee', 'of', 'the', 'Energy', 'and', 'Commerce', 'Committee.', 'Neither', 'subcommittee', 'has', 'scheduled', 'testimony', 'from', 'either', 'Baltimore', 'or', 'any', 'of', 'his', 'co-authors,', 'subcommittee', 'staffers', 'said', 'Thursday.', 'Baltimore,', '50,', 'the', 'director', 'of', 'the', 'Whitehead', 'Institute', 'for', 'Biomedical', 'Research', 'in', 'Cambridge,', 'Mass.,', 'won', 'the', 'Nobel', 'Prize', 'in', '1975', 'for', 'research', 'on', 'the', 'biology', 'of', 'retroviruses,', 'a', 'class', 'of', 'viruses', 'that', 'includes', 'the', 'AIDS', 'virus.', 'He', 'served', 'as', 'co-chairman', 'of', 'the', 'Institute', 'of', "Medicine's", '19846', 'Committee', 'ona', 'National', 'Strategy', 'for', 'AIDS', 'and', 'addressed', 'a', 'special', '1987', 'session', 'of', 'the', 'California', 'Legislature', 'on', 'the', 'AIDS', 'epidemic.', 'GRAPHIC:', 'Photo,', 'David', 'Baltimore', 'Associated', 'Press', 'SUBJECT:', 'BALTIMORE,', 'DAVID;', 'MEDICAL', 'RESEARCH;', 'SCIENTIFIC', 'MISCONDUCT;', 'INFORMERS;', 'MISTAKES;', 'SCIENTISTS', ' ', 'SELIJEZOS', 'LEXIS', 'NEXIS', 'LEXIS’', 'NEXIS']