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...minimize the damage to fair Harvard's reputation. The Biochemistry Department had summoned the student, Steven S. Rosenfeld '75, before its members for a 'fessing up, and now caucused furiously to advise the research team on what its course of action should be. The professor involved, David H. Dressler, assistant professor of Biochemistry, and his graduate assistant in the three-man team, Huntington Potter '72, had decided to report to the Administrative Board only the fact of Rosenfeld's five or more forgeries to medical schools, fellowship committees, and Phi Beta Kappa. That...
...contents of the letters, and the qualms the two had been having since April (the last time their experiments dealing with "transfer factor" had worked out right) about their publicized research's integrity, Dressler and Potter had withheld as privy information. Now, feeling that as teachers, and human beings, they had met their responsibility to a student, peer and friend of over two years, the two biochemists had to turn to their responsibility as scientists: salvaging professional integrity--but not saving face--by publicly airing their doubts about their own work...
Tampering Denied. The scandal, which came to light as a result of hard investigative reporting by the Harvard Crimson, began with Dressler's discovery that Rosenfeld had written his own recommendation for a Harvard-M.I.T. medical program-and forged Dressler's signature on the bottom. Further investigation revealed that Rosenfeld had also fabricated at least three other letters recommending him for Phi Beta Kappa and a fellowship. The deceptions might have gone unnoticed even longer had not Rosenfeld exaggerated his own importance. One of the letters of recommendation over Dressler's signature indicated that Rosenfeld single...
...significant that one paper reporting them was sponsored for publication in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by James D. Watson, the Harvard biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to decipher the structure of the genetic material DNA. Since April, however, attempts by Dressler's group to duplicate the results have been unsuccessful, raising doubts among scientists about the experiments. In the light of the revelations about Rosenfeld, the April cutoff date seems significant; it suggests to some researchers that news of last spring's fake research scandal at Manhattan's Sloan...
...Dressler cures cancer, as it were, by magic...