Word: scatena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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University of Rochester graduate student Paul K. Scatena prompted the four-month investigation of Frazier by a faculty council when he found articles in which Frazier had misused sources...
...little disappointed and a little surprised [by the rehiring]," said Scatena. "When somebody misbehaves in this way, it's hard to know how far to trust them, and as far as medical purposes, I think you have to trust them...
...Scatena said Frazier's plagiarism was"shocking," and said he would not trust anyone whoviewed the University's response as anoverreaction...
There were also statistical errors in Frazier'sarticles, Scatena said. Frazier derivedpercentages from other researchers' dataincorrectly by using too large of a test group, hesaid...
That kind of error can mislead doctorsdangerously by suggesting that a disease is veryrare when in reality it is not, Scatena said...