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...court also decided, 7-2, that the IRS may require banks to disclose depositors' names and other records when the taxmen have reason to be suspicious of large deposits or transactions. The decision, said worried Dissenters Potter Stewart and William O. Douglas, could let the IRS go off on "shot-in-the-dark" hunting expeditions. Speaking for the majority, Chief Justice Warren Burger conceded the problem but insisted that courts could deal with it by keeping careful limits on the IRS power. After all. Burger added, many taxpayers innocently "hide large amounts of currency in odd places...
...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...
...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...
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...