This article too long to paste from Sydney Morning Herald and behind a paywall, here is the link.... https://archive.is/ZSKYX Follow the mice’: How whistleblowers, secret lab videos brought down top scientist By Liam Mannix July 27, 2025 Mark Smyth was once one of the nation’s most-lauded scientists.Credit: Matt Davidson The white lab mouse struggles and fights, hanging on to the side of the cage, before lying face-up in the scientist’s gloved hands. According to a card on the box, the mouse was injected with a large dose of breast cancer cells into its belly before undergoing surgery. This mouse, though, looks perfectly healthy. So do its litter-mates. So do the mice in other boxes. “There’s no sign of any tumour,” said a researcher who reviewed the footage. Nor are there obvious signs of injection or surgery.
From the article.... Sound familiar...? Smyth accused them of forging their job application and faking their CV, and called them an “idiot”. Smyth bullied researchers who raised research integrity concerns; they worried they would be sacked if they reported him. “I’ve never met a research misconduct case that doesn’t involve bullying,” said Elizabeth Lacey, a lawyer specialising in the field. “The ones who are so hell-bent on getting away with it. It’s all about how good you can make yourself look. “And anything is a slight. So then anyone who might question you has to be taken down.”