Hidden Data - The Blind Eye of Science

A story of scientific misconduct told by a Professor of Radiology at the New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ, who witnessed it and then tried to get the authorities to deal with it, failing at every step along the way. First, the University Campus Committee on Research Integrity ruled there was not enough evidence in spite of two eye witness accounts of very suspicious behavior. Then the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the US Public Health Service supported the University even though they discovered statistical evidence for data manipulation. At the behest of the ORI, she tried again to convince the University and failed again. She filed a suit for qui tam, in which she represented the federal government in charging that it had been defrauded. This, too, failed. The judge did not understand the science. The Court of Appeals agreed but one of the judges even admitted that they were just judges and that she, herself, had never had a science course in her life. The loss was costly — over $200,000 — but during Discovery, the whistle blower obtained scans of all the relevant experiments performed in the laboratory over an eight year period that encompassed the four year tenure of the suspected Research Teaching Fellow and numerous honest controls. Additional attempts to confront the University and the ORI were rebuffed and challenging journals that had published the questionable data failed to get their attention. In all, eight publications and at least two funded grant applications by the US Public Health Service to the tune of several million dollars are backed by the very questionable data that are scrutinized in this book.
The book demonstrates the reticence of authorities involved to deal effectively with scientific misconduct. These include the University and its designated Campus Committee for Research Integrity, the ORI, the courts, and the publishers of scientific journals. Fear of law suits and loss of funding overwhelms any obligation to make the scientific record straight. This book is a wake-up call for science and the public to monitor the record and demand the truth.

About the author

Dr. Helene Z. Hill is a graduate of Smith College and received a PhD in biology from Brandeis University in 1964. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard and the University of Colorado Medical Schools, and she rose through the ranks from assistant to full professor at the Medical Schools of the University of Colorado; Washington University in St. Louis; Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia; and the New JerseyMedical School, in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Hill has co-authored more than eighty scientific publications and was awarded the Smith College Medal in 1997. Dr. Hill retired in December 2016 and is Professor Emerita, at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey. Dr Hill has written Hidden Data:The Blind Eye of Science CreateSpace 2016 and co-wrote with Amy Waters Yarsinske Cover-Up: Collusion in the Halls of Academia. The Crying Window:Memoir of a Woman Scientist Looking for Truth will be published in the summer.Amy Waters Yarsinske is the award winning author of the An American in the Basement: the Betrayal of Captain Scott Speicher and the Cover-up of His Death, which led to major media interviews and speaking engagements across the country. It importantly continues the national conversation of POW/MIA accountability. The book won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Non-fiction in 2014. Amy'snew books include an historical series based on her favorite Virginia, North Carolina and Washington, D.C. locales and historic sites. This includes Norfolk Botanical Garden - A Natural Treasure, a Virginia Historic Landmark, a site that is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Product details

• Authors: Helene Z. Hill
• Publisher: Bookwhip Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2019
• EAN: 9781949723847
• ISBN: 978-1-949723-84-7
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 417 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries