Matthew Schrag

So what you're talking about is a guy who ended his scientific career, in effect.

Well, we'll never know because they never released any of the particulars, except to say that they had asked for journals to consider retracting other Lesney articles.

Now, the initial story, this seminal paper in Nature that was influential in the field of Alzheimer's disease, and I would argue, and I think many people agree, had a very, very high degree of importance in moving the field forward.

This paper was retracted, ultimately.

I focused in on about 50 who were both influential and who seemed to be people who needed a closer look.

Probably the most interesting one is this guy, Eliezer Maslia, who was previously the head of the Division of Neuroscience for the National Institute on Aging.

This guy was overseeing a budget of about $2.7 billion per year.

And this guy,

made him one of the most influential people in the world, by far, to steer the agenda of neuroscience research, because this is the biggest funder worldwide for this work.

He, for decades, had been a researcher at the University of California in San Diego.

He became an eminent scientist in both

Parkinson's and Alzheimer's research.

So when he was hired to be the head of the neuroscience division at NIA, it made him a logical choice.

Someone who had respect, had context, had prestige, had himself demonstrated a propensity for influential research.

And he operated his own lab within NIA as well as directing their programs.

No, there were no suspicions of him, according to the NIH.

So with the cooperation and assistance of four leading forensic image experts, and that included Matt Schrag, a woman by the name of Mu Yang, who is at Columbia University, who's becoming a pretty well-known

forensic image expert.

Also, Kevin Patrick, who is not a scientist, but is an independent researcher who is excellent and very seasoned at looking at these images.

And Elizabeth Bick, who is a world-renowned expert in scientific image analysis.