Comments on: Ignacio Chapela Press Conference

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sun, 22 May 2005 07:30:35 +0000

Joshua — I saw the video of his threats to the student. Apparently, they were not only empty threats, but the student also did not return the laptop.

My own pingback above is great news and a good followup to this post.

By: trisweb.com » archives » Ignacio Chapela Granted Tenure!

trisweb.com » archives » Ignacio Chapela Granted Tenure! — Sun, 22 May 2005 05:15:32 +0000

[...] otech company Novartis. Just a month ago, he sued the university for several things, and I reported on the press conference. This is great news. Chapela’ [...]

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:43:05 +0000

One of the profs implicated in conflict of interest, MCB’s Jasper Rine has been caught up in some interesting stuff recently as well. Seems someone stole his laptop and then threatened that person hardcore during one of his lectures and it was caught on video and distributed on the web. I have the whole thing linked from my blog as well as a brief cataloguing of his involvement in this case.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:03:41 +0000

Absolutely. Also consider that this post went out to approximately 70 students in a class dealing with this very subject. Seems they should be more interested, but it’s just not even given much importance even in class.

I did speak with the professor, and it’s interesting to note that he agreed with my analysis, and added that Chapela’s case seems a little “over the top” I guess you could say. First he brought in racial issues with tenure as a 2nd facet of the lawsuit, which I really believe shouldn’t have been mixed with the scientific part. In a more general sense, his lawsuit seems more personal than scientific. I think his heart is in the right place though; he knows that the impact on the scientific community could be great, and he’s really trying to aim for that.

Publicize it! No one says you can’t. Except maybe Novartis… and that’s really the whole question. None of us are attached to their puppet strings — we can make this a big deal if we want. Even then, given the power that these scientific industries have, no one could get far, and I’m sure that’s what’s been happening so far. [try Robert Kuehn - "Suppression of Environmental Science" (pdf)]

By: Dad

Dad — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:57:21 +0000

The lack of comment about this is remarkable - not only here, but in the media as well. In the world of science this is a very big deal… but no one speaks.