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...experiments dealt with "transfer factor," a controversial substance regarded as potentially significant in cancer research. Rosenfeld along with David Dressler, assistant professor of Biochemistry and head of the research team, and Huntington Potter '72, a graduate assistant, had published articles in two prestigious scientific journals on experiments they felt indicated the existence of the elusive substance...
...plenty of leeway for casting in ferences and aspersions, and generally pinning the tail of a doomed career on the donkey (Rosenfeld). By immediately dropping all work on transfer factor, a controversial substance postulated in the 1950's for transfering immunity against foreign substances from one animal to another, Dressler and Potter might successfully sever themselves from the scandal...
FROM HIS sabbatical retreat in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Nobel laureate James D. Watson, professor of Molecular Biology, offered further incentive for dumping on the kid, pressing Dressler to "stop working on this at once and turn your attention to something else." Of course, Watson was no impartial observer. He, Dressler and others were working from the same pool of National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society grants, and he himself had sponsored the articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, America's equivalent of the Royal Society. Watson's New York friends, he admitted...
Rejecting such advice, Dressler and Potter opted for a marty-like stance, issuing a curt, 110-word tentative retraction that avoided all mention of Rosenfeld or their own difficulties, and promising to keep working to get active "preps" of transfer factor during the next three months. They are still working to get a positive "take," though they have met with no success and have moved the focus of their research elsewhere. The chances of vindicating Rosenfeld and justifying two years of work grow dimmer...
...Your integrity is everything in this business. And when you lose that, everything you've done is in question," a frazzled, enemic-looking Dressler told members of his lab at the height of the crisis. There is surely no logic to falsifying data, he kept saying, in order to "get published" in the prestige scientific journals, since the whole idea of such journals is to have other people repeat your presumably "successful" procedures and spread the wealth of knowledge...