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...Chester W. Douglass’ seven-figure donation to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine came four years before the school launched an investigation into his academic conduct, and had no effect on the review’s conclusion, the school’s spokesman, John Lacey, said yesterday. Douglass donated around $1 million to the dental school in 2001, Lacey confirmed, four years before the Washington-based Environmental Working Group filed a complaint alleging that Douglass had committed “serious misrepresentations of research results.” The Environmental Working Group accused Douglass in 2005 of ignoring...
...allegations that he covered up links between fluoride and bone cancer is listed as a million-dollar benefactor of the school’s new research and education building. The revelation has led one environmental advocacy group to suggest that a recent Harvard investigation of the professor, Chester W. Douglass, may have been compromised due to the professor’s status as a patron of the school. The Washington-based Environmental Working Group, which initially brought the accusations against Douglass, said on Friday that the professor’s donation discredits the impartiality of Harvard’s review...
...online peer-review journal of Harvard University. Elise B. Bassin, a clinical instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, who led the study, wrote in an e-mail that she found a significant relationship between fluoride and cancer—contradicting the findings of her dissertation adviser Chester Douglass, the chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. “We found an association between fluoride levels in drinking water during childhood and osteosarcoma for males diagnosed before age 20 years,” she wrote. Douglass’ $1.3 million...
...drive home the seriousness of the discrepancy in historical coverage, give this a try: right now, off the top of your head, name five black men that you learned about each February before you came to college. Easy, right? Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington…you probably could have kept going well past five. Now try the same exercise with black women. If you’re anything like most of the people I’ve talked to, you’ll start struggling around three—Rosa Parks...
...Carter G. Woodson earned a Ph.D in history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson’s invention gained popularity, the week evolved into a full month. But last December, Woodson’s brainchild weathered criticism from actor Morgan Freeman, who suggested that Black History Month should be abolished...