by Simon Levay
investigation.org/.
National Research Council. The evaluation of forensic DNA evidence: An update. Available at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.
php?record_id=5141.
Chapter 10
Interviews:
John Casani, PhD, July 29, 2006.
Steve Jolly, PhD, September 12,2006.
Sam Thurman, PhD, August 31, 2006.
News Accounts:
J Kaye (2000): ‘NASA in Question.’ PBS NewsHour, April 14. Available at: www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/jan-june00/nasa_
4-14.html.
M Munro (2004): ‘Ryan: Death of Four-Year-Old Is a Tragic Reminder of the Dangers of Clinical Research.’ CanWest News Service, February 26. Available at: www.michenerawards.ca/english/
ryan.htm.
Other:
NASA-TV: Mars Climate Orbiter Orbit Insertion Event, September 23, 1999. Courtesy of JPL AudioVisual Services Office.
Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board: Phase I Report. Available at: ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/reports/1999/MCO_
report.pdf.
Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board: Report on Project Management in NASA. Available at: ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/
pao/reports/2000/MCO_MIB_Report.pdf.
NASA-JPL: Basics of space flight, chapter 13: space navigation. Available at: www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf13-1.html.
Food and Drug Administration: Warning letter to Dr. Jacqueline Halton, April 14, 2003. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/foi/
warning_letters/archive/g3946d.htm.
Chapter 11
Interviews:
Nicoline Ambrose, PhD, October 17, 2006.
Oliver Bloodstein, PhD, October 9, 2006 (email).
Curtis Krull, JD, October 24, 2006.
Richard, Schwartz, PhD, October 16, 2006.
Books:
Wendell Johnson (1930). Because I Stutter. D Appleton and Co. Available at: www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/wj/bis/wjbis.html.
Wendell Johnson (1961). Stuttering and What You Can Do About It. University of Minnesota Press. Available at: www.uiowa.edu/~
cyberlaw/wj/wjswycda.html.
Scientific Publications:
W Johnson (1938). The role of evaluation in stuttering behavior. Journal of Speech Disorders 3:85-89.
M Tudor (1939). An experimental study of the effect of evaluative labeling on speech fluency. MA thesis, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa.
NG Ambrose and E Yairi (2002). The Tudor study: Data and ethics. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 11:190-203.
E Yairi (2005). The Tudor study and Wendell Johnson. In Ethics: A Case Study from Fluency. Plural Publishing.
RG Schwartz (2005). Would today’s IRB approve the Tudor study? In Ethics: A Case Study from Fluency. Plural Publishing.
N Johnson (2005). Retroactive ethical judgments and human subjects research: The 1930 Tudor study. In Ethics: A case study from fluency. Plural Publishing. Available at: www.nicholasjohnson.org/
wjohnson/hsr/njhsr512.pdf.
News Accounts:
J Dyer (2001). ‘Ethics and Orphans: The “Monster Study”.’ San Jose Mercury News, June 10.
J Dyer (2001). ‘Theory Improved Treatment and Understanding of Stuttering.’ San Jose Mercury News, June 11.
C Krantz (2001). ‘Reporter Quits in Stutterers Case.’ Des Moines Register, August 1.
G Reynolds (2003). ‘The Stuttering Doctor’s “Monster Study”.’ New York Times, March 16.
Associated Press (2007). ‘Orphans Studied in 1939 Stuttering Experiment Settle Lawsuit for $925G.’ FOX News, August 17. Available at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293623,00
.html.
Chapter 12
Interviews:
Peter Armbruster, PhD, January 8, 2007 (email).
Kenneth Gregorich, PhD, December 11, 2006.
Walter Loveland, PhD, December 14, 2006.
Victor Ninov, PhD, December 14, 2006.
Books:
Darleane C Hoffman, Albert Ghiorso, and Glenn T Seaborg (2000). The Transuranium People: The Inside Story. Imperial College Press.
Scientific Publications:
V Ninov, KE Gregorich, W Loveland, A Ghiorso, DC Hoffman, et al. (1999). Observation of superheavy nuclei produced in the reaction of 86Kr with 208Pb. Physical Review Letters 83:1104-1107.
S Hofmann, FP Hessberger, D Ackermann, et al. (2002). New results on elements 111 and 112. European Physical Journal A 14:147-157.
Editorial note [retraction] (2002): Observation of superheavy nuclei produced in the reaction of 86Kr with 208Pb. Physical Review Letters 89:9901 (15 July).
YT Oganessian, VK Utyonkov, YV Lobanov, et al. (2006): Synthesis of the isotopes of the elements 118 and 116 in the 249Cf and 245Cm+48Ca reactions. Physics Review C 74:e044602.
News Accounts:
Anonymous (1999): ‘Discovery of New Elements Makes Front Page News.’ Berkeley Lab Research Review (Summer). Available at: www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/1999/
departments/breaking_news.shtml.
G Johnson (2002): ‘At Lawrence Berkeley, Physicists Say a Colleague Took Them for a Ride.’ New York Times, October 15.
K Davidson (2002): ‘Accusations of Fraud: Fired Lawrence Lab Physicist’s Earlier Data Also Questioned.’ San Francisco Chronicle, July 21.
Other:
M Gilchriese, A Sessier, G Trilling, and R Vogt (2002). Report of the committee on the formal investigation of alleged scientific misconduct by LBNL staff scientist Dr Victor Ninov. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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