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Author
Mannix, Liam
Title
'Follow the mice': How whistleblowers, secret lab videos brought down top scientist
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The Age
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online
Imprint
27 July 2025
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https://www.theage.com.au/national/follow-the-mice-how-whistleblowers-secret-lab-videos-brought-down-top-scientist-20250710-p5mdxc.html
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Also published in "The Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Brisbane Times".

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Abstract

After an independent external investigation, QIMR Berghofer, a leading government-funded research institute, concluded Taylor* and other whistleblowers were right. In 2021, QIMR announced it had found substantial research misconduct by Smyth, and he left the facility.

QIMR did not, and will not, discuss the details of that investigation, despite the millions of dollars in taxpayer money involved.

But based on a leaked cache of documents and videos, and interviews with more than 20 former colleagues and investigators, this masthead can reveal what went on in Smyth's lab at QIMR, tracking how whistleblowers and investigators finally brought him down.

* name changed

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