Three years ago, a Harvard professor confessed to David White, his mentor, that he fabricated “as much as half of the data he used on a Harvard study of sleep apnea.”
Harvard’s investigation, says White, “moved glacially.”
Well, yes. Here we are 2009, and the Crimson is finally able to describe the paltry consequences of this man’s behavior.
First, he’s in a far better place now. Merck.
Second, for three years he can’t advise the Public Health Service, and they’ll supervise his research.
That’s it.
A Harvard medical school spokesman “declined to comment on the investigation.”
Right. You wouldn’t a spokesman to talk to the press about an associate professor at the university, the co-director of a Harvard-affiliated program in sleep medicine, whose lying precipitated what White calls a “massive investigation,” involving many retracted papers, etc.
I mean, the results of the investigation have just come out. Give the spokesman another three years to gather his thoughts.