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When you fudge data in a high school chemistry experiment, your teacher admonishes you and lowers your lab grade a point or two. But when you fake statistics in a cancer research project at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), you lose your job and the respect of your colleagues...
That's what happened to Dr. John C. Long, assistant professor Pathology at Harvard-affiliated MGH, after he admitted making up the results of an experiment for an article on Hodgkin's disease which the Journal of the National Cancer Institute published last year...
...Malin started work at McLean, an affiliate of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), one of the largest employers in Massachusetts. For two years, his night shift at the Children's Center allowed him to read several hundred books a year while caring for the nine children in the center's blue unit...
...next few years were a blur of endless legal battles between Malin, McLean and MGH. Malin spent many long hours preparing never-ending charges against the hospital and supporting them with documentary evidence, affidavits from other employees, and legal briefs. Backed by lawyers from the large Boston firm of Herrick & Smith, the hospital continued to violate Section 7 of the NLRA, which is the only statute that comes close to serving as a workers' bill of rights. Malin used other avenues as well to voice his and his co-workers' grievances about hospital working conditions; in 1977, he wrote...
Through all of these episodes, Malin managed to hold on to his job. But on Feb. 1, 1979 --20 days after submitting to the MGH trustees a notice of intent to unionize--the hospital suspended him for alleged insubordination. Malin filed his 11th charge against McLean and MGH...