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...David Dressier to toast one another with champagne. They had ample cause for celebration: their ten months of experiments on a "transfer factor" in animal immunology had produced spectacular results, gaining publication in scientific journals and the attention of immunologists round the world. Furthermore, one of the group, Steven Rosenfeld, an undergraduate Wunderkind who had started the research as a summer project-had just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
Last week the once proud group was in disarray. Rosenfeld, 21, was in hiding after a disciplinary board had forced him to leave Harvard in disgrace. The reputation of Dressier, a respected scientist, had been somewhat tarnished. Most important, serious doubt had been cast on the validity of the transfer factor experiments...
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...
Through a lawyer last week, Rosenfeld issued a statement admitting that he had "committed several irrational, highly regrettable and unquestionably wrong acts," but he strongly denied that he had tampered with the immunology experiments. "I can understand how my behavior may have raised doubts about the validity of our results," he conceded, "but it would be tragic if work were to stop on experiments in which we have invested so much time, and which I firmly feel will eventually be successful...
...John J. McCarthy III of Quincy House and Stoneham; Richard P. Mendelson of Winthrop House and Jacksonville, Fla.; Bruce R. Musicus of Eliot House and Chicago, III.; Rhesa L. Penn of North House and Midland, Texas; Mark E. Robbins of Lowell House and Toledo, Ohio; and Steven S. Rosenfeld of Leverett House and Lancaster...