Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since he was first accused by his colleagues at New York City's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research of faking the results of a scientific experiment, Dr. William Summerlin, 35, has declined either to defend himself or to publicly explain his action. But last week, after an S.K.I, peer review committee upheld the accusation and fired him from the institution (TIME, June 3), Summerlin broke his silence. Denying any intention of deceit, he gave his version of the events that precipitated the S.K.I, scandal. At the same time, he provided his fellow researchers with a cautionary tale...
...many transplant operations: the tendency of the body's immune system to destroy foreign tissue. But other scientists were unable to repeat Summerlin's experiments, and skepticism about his results grew steadily. Earlier this spring Summerlin, who had since moved to New York City's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, was accused by colleagues of painting the skin of some laboratory mice to make it appear that he had successfully grafted tissue from one animal to another. He was suspended while a specially appointed S.K.I. committee investigated the charges. Last week, describing Summerlin's conduct...
Self-Deception. The committee's report suggests that Summerlin's actions "involved at least some measure of self-deception, or some other aberration, which hindered him from adequately gauging the import and eventual results of his conduct." Dr. Lewis Thomas, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, concurs. After meeting with Summerlin, his wife and a psychiatrist, Thomas agreed that the researcher was suffering from a "serious emotional disturbance...
This incident of scientific fakery, described in C.P. Snow's 1960 novel The Affair, was fiction. But the drama now unfolding at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research is real. In 1970 Dr. William Summerlin, 35, reported that he had discovered a way that might make it possible to circumvent the immune-system reaction that causes the body to reject transplanted tissues or organs. Last week he stood accused by his colleagues of faking at least some of his later experiments, and was suspended from S.K.I, while a panel of scientists investigated the charges against...
...eyewitness to the stabbing, Philip S. Sloan '77, said yesterday that O'Rourke's assailant did not leave the scene of the fight until the police arrived several minutes after the stabbing...