The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct

IMO the existing laws on fraud in most countries are sufficient, there's just a severe lack of investigative personnel. The article highlights a move by Denmark to establish a separate agency for enforcing existing laws in these kinds of situations and I think it's potentially a good remedy for the human resources problem here.

I think there ought to be an international body* for studying and highlighting effective developments in the justice systems of different countries for better spreading advances as they're made. Off the top of my head, Singapore has seen excellent cost savings from their approach to digitizing the court system (or at least the public-facing aspects) and only a couple countries have followed their model.

*If there already is one, I'd love to hear about it.

Scientific misconduct is already criminal. PROSECUTION of scientific fraud and embezzlement is easy.

Many if not most academic scientists are pressured into being criminals who don't respect wire fraud and other law.

Only if we also make a case for criminalizing managerial misconduct using an equivalent metric to the author's proposed QALY measure.