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Rogers, B., and O’Hare, P. (2008). Rosenthal cites prescription drugs in decision to quit DA post.
Houston
Chronicle
, February 16.

 

Other:

Houston
Chronicle
: ‘Hot topic: HPD Crime Lab-Index of stories.’ WC Thompson, (2003). Review of DNA evidence in
State v. Josiah Sutton
. Available at: http://www.scientific.org/archive/Thompson

%20Report.PDF.

Home page, Office of the Independent Investigator for the Houston Police Department Crime Laboratory and Property Room [Michael Bromwich’s reports]. Available at: www.hpdlab

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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