The stench was too great. I learned from this article that Charles “Disgraced” Nemeroff, once one of the most respected psychiatry professors in America, has moved from Emory University (where he badly deceived university officials) to the University of Miami. The article tells of more Nemeroff dishonesty: He put his name on a textbook he didn’t write. This letter shows how the book was written. The words in the book came from a company named Scientific Therapeutics Information, whose fee was paid by GlaxoSmithKline. Scientific Therapeutics won’t answer questions about what it did. Nemeroff says he and his co-author “conceptualized this book, wrote the original outline and worked on all of the content.” Worked on, huh? Leslie Iversen, an Oxford professor of pharmacology, may have “worked on” the passages he plagiarized (a few words were changed) harder than Nemeroff and his co-author “worked on” their book. The New York Times added a correction to the article worthy of Wittgenstein: “While documents show that SmithKline (now known as GlaxoSmithKline) hired a writing company for the book, they do not indicate that the [writing] company wrote the book.”
In twenty years perhaps Nemeroff will forget that he “wrote” this book, just as the first President Bush forgot about a book he “wrote”.
Thanks to Alex Chernavsky.
In my department there was a massive “intro” text they made all the freshmen undergrads buy. Its authors were the current department head and the previous two. Whenever they got a new department head, they would make some minor revisions and issue a new edition with the new guy’s name as lead author, and the two previous heads below that.
anyone know what department Anonymous is talking about?