The integrity crusader

Australia’s pre-eminent research integrity expert thinks the country needs to take it far more seriously

Fixing research integrity is like fighting fires, David Vaux says. You don’t expect everyone to be able to put out a fire, but you can teach anyone how to get help.

Vaux, the inaugural holder of the Australian Academy of Science’s David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship—yes, it is named after him—is talking, somewhat excitedly, about the damage that integrity breaches can do and what to do about them.