Charles Piller
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 17 Apr
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And it was only after months and months of being stonewalled by those institutions, months and months of being ignored by
the journals that are responsible for the scientific record itself, that he felt that it was appropriate for him to come out publicly through my writing.
And so the short answer is yes, he followed the sort of prescribed protocols and found them to be unfortunately not very useful.
And this is
I would add a very typical story.
These institutions are sluggish at best in examining problems that occur on their watch, both out of a sense of embarrassment and also out of the problem of trying to guard against people criticizing them.
There's a longer story about it, but the gist of it is yes, he did approach those institutions and did not get satisfaction.
No, just to be clear, look, we're all human.
We all make mistakes.
I have made mistakes in my reporting, although I got to say it's pretty unusual because I'm a careful person and I have great editing and great fact checking.
But that said, whenever there's a claim that I've made a mistake,
I drop everything and go directly to reinvestigate that issue to satisfy myself that either the questioner is incorrect or if there was a mistake made that we issue correction.
This happens immediately.
Not so with scientific journals.
Usually they spend weeks, months, or even years without doing anything.
normally they kick the question back to the home institution of the investigator who's been questioned.
Let's take the example of the important experiment from the University of Minnesota from 2006.
The journal Nature published this.
This is an eminent journal, one of the most important journals of scholarly writing in the world.
You might say an equivalent with Science, the journal that I work for.
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