The book and movie clearly play his intent to receive the credit and willingness to throw his power around to foil the French. The book definitely accuses him of delaying the antibody test. It also documents his refusal to provide reagents to his former postdoc, Dr. V. S. Kalyanaraman. That is an attempt to kill his career. It's not a crime, per se, but it is a breath-taking violation of common scientific courtesy.
Those two cases are why I sat through scientific ethics training every year from 1990 to at least 1995. That is why the heads of the Institutes in NIH established a whistle-blower line for the post-docs and graduate students. That is why the heads came down fast and hard when my adviser tried to prevent one of his postdocs from going to Yale as an assistant professor.
Killing or severely wounding a post-doc's career isn't illegal and it happens, but it is wrong-doing!
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Date: 2009-12-13 02:57 pm (UTC)Those two cases are why I sat through scientific ethics training every year from 1990 to at least 1995. That is why the heads of the Institutes in NIH established a whistle-blower line for the post-docs and graduate students. That is why the heads came down fast and hard when my adviser tried to prevent one of his postdocs from going to Yale as an assistant professor.
Killing or severely wounding a post-doc's career isn't illegal and it happens, but it is wrong-doing!