1990年9月,美国国会一个专门委员会公布了一份对美国医学研究界提出严厉抨击的报告。该报告说美国医学研究界现在盛行贿赂、诈骗和舞弊等各种不正之风,并指责国立卫生研究所由于未能严格监督它所资助的医学研究人员而“危害了公众的健康”。这份报告要求制定新的法律,规定对于靠政府提供研究基金的科学家,必须限制他们在公司股份中的所有权 In September 1990, a special panel of the U.S. Congress published a report that severely criticized the medical research community in the United States. The report said the medical research community in the United States is now experiencing unhealthy tendencies such as bribery, fraud and fraud and accused the National Institutes of Health of “undermining public health” by failing to strictly monitor the medical researchers it sponsors. The report calls for the enactment of new laws that require scientists who rely on government to provide research grants to limit their ownership in the company's shares