When authoritative sources hold onto bad data: A legal scholar explains the need for government databases to retract information
- Written by Janet Freilich, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University
Government information sources like the U.S. patent database often file bad information without labeling it or providing a way to retract it.Thinglass/iStock via Getty ImagesIn 2004, Hwang Woo-suk was celebrated for his breakthrough discovery creating cloned human embryos, and his work was published in the prestigious journal Science. But the...