The government and the research councils have rejected suggestions that the UK needs a specific body to police research integrity.

The idea was floated by the Commons Science and Technology Committee in its report on peer review, published in July.

As one casts one's eye back to Climategate and the integrity failures by academics and administrators, and the Science and Technology Committee's Climategate inquiries and the voting down of any less-than-mild criticism of scientists by government MPs, and the peer review inquiry that followed that recommended some oversight, and now this...

...well it doesn't look very good does it?