In 2003, Saul Sternberg and I published an article that claimed that some work by Ranjit Chandra, an Order-of-Canada-winning scientist, was unbelievable. You can learn more about the Chandra story here. In February, someone named Peter S. Morris made a long list of additions to the Ranjit Chandra entry in Wikipedia. The additions make Memorial University of Newfoundland, Chandra’s employer, look better. They include:
The vice-presidents [investigating a charge that Chandra had fabricated data] were unable to secure the data, and, as a consequence, were unable to verify research fraud conclusively.
What a statement. Not being able to “secure the data” is what you would expect if data were fabricated. Either the vice presidents were mentally retarded or this is false. The whistle blower who reported Chandra to Memorial, a nurse named Marilyn Harvey who had worked for Chandra, did so at considerable risk. That Memorial did a travesty of an investigation and failed to protect her is horrible — and now someone is lying about it.
A Peter Morris is Director of Public Affairs in the Division of Marketing and Communications at Memorial University.
My earlier post with this heading.