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...shady scientist. The dissolute evangelist betrays his one revealed Truth, but the scientist who rushes half-cocked into print or, worse yet, falsifies the data subverts the whole idea of truth. Cold fusion in a teacup? Or, as biologists (then at M.I.T.) David Baltimore and Thereza Imanishi-Kari claimed in a controversial 1986 article that the National Institutes of Health has now judged to be fraudulent, genes from one mouse mysteriously "imitating" those from another? Sure, and parallel lines might as well meet somewhere or apples leap back up onto trees...
...laureate and since 1990 president of Rockefeller University, has apologized, after a fashion, for his role in the alleged fraud, and many feel that the matter should be left to rest. He didn't, after all, falsify the data himself; he merely signed on as senior scientist to Imanishi-Kari's now discredited findings. But when a young postdoctoral fellow named Margot O'Toole tried to blow the whistle, Baltimore pooh-poohed O'Toole's evidence and stood by while she lost her job. Then, as the feds closed in, he launched a bold, misguided defense of the sanctity...
...better voices. Literary deconstructionists say there's no truth anyway, just ideologies and points of view. Lies, you might say, are the great lubricant of our way of life. They sell products, flatter the powerful, appease the electorate and save vast sums from the IRS. Imanishi-Kari's lie didn't even hurt anyone: no bridges fell, no patients died...
Harvard started off on the right foot as Sam Ettus and Rachel Pollock raced past Kari Weiner and Adrienne Amato in straight sets to give the Crimson the early lead...
...Lynn Rosenstrach (Yale) d. Amy deLone (HARVARD), 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; 2. Jamie Henikoff (H) d. Laura Flynn (Y), 6-1, 7-5; 3. Lee Denley (Y) d. Liza Parker (H), 6-3, 6-4; 4. Sam Ettus (H) d. Kari Weiner (Y), 6-2, 6-2; 5. Audrey Delaney (Y) d. Erika Elmuts (H), 6-2, 6-2; 6. Adrienne Amato (Y) d. Rachel Pollock...