THE dictators of the EPO will come under growing levels of scrutiny. Benoît Battistelli was already pushed out for his abuses, albeit his successor and friend (António Campinos) had a 'grace period' for a while. His dialogue with the staff broke down earlier this year (more formally, as it had already been on the rocks for years) and as we pointed out yesterday [1, 2, 3] the uncomfortable-to-answer questions keep coming up and it's possible that tomorrow the EU/EP will bring up those questions at a more official capacity. We certainly hope that the EPO can repair itself before it just completely collapses (the latter is almost guranteed to happen unless things change, according to longtime insiders). ⬆