Definitions:
Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them;
Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results in the research record;
Plagiarism is the appropriation of other person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit;
Retaliation will be determined by the investigators, but certainly constitutes any actions or speech that create an adverse employment action, a hostile work environment, physical or verbal threat or damage to possessions or persons as a direct result of being a whistle blower or a participant in an investigation of misconduct.
(Misconduct in research does not include honest error or differences of opinion.)