POV: Priya NairThe morning after the anniversary lunch I was at my desk at the Neural Research Institute. Karan was at his desk too. We were reviewing overnight data from the clinical trial's six-month checkpoint across forty-seven patients in seven countries, the treatment pathway working in real human bodies now with real results coming in.The six-month data showed results consistent with the preliminary thirty-four percent we'd seen in the study models and possibly stronger in two of the seven trial cohorts, possibly stronger. This was science so you said possibly until you could say certainly and we weren't at certainly yet.We worked through the data for two hours before anyone else arrived.The journal that published Whitmore's fraudulent research and then issued that four-page retraction that rocked academic Twitter for an entire Tuesday had implemented a mandatory pre-publication attribution audit for all submissions. The audit process was designed by a committee that includ