Dishonest Daley? Is Harvard Med School Dean the Latest to Manipulate Research?
After reviewing the published papers authored by animal experimenter George Q. Daley, the dean of Harvard Medical School, PETA has uncovered that an alarming number of his papers have been flagged by other scientists for possibly containing manipulated and unreliable data.
Daley has had one paper retracted—a rare move— several corrected, and ten flagged for concern due to spliced or duplicated images. Despite this, he has gobbled up more than $55 million in taxpayer money for his experiments.
PETA is urging Harvard’s scientific integrity office and the U.S. Office of Research Integrity to investigate Daley’s laboratory for research misconduct and determine whether his images and data were deliberately and intentionally manipulated before being published in scientific journals.
Manipulated Data Begets Real Animal Misery?
Daley and his staff subject mice to numerous gruesome and deadly experiments. They include breeding mice to develop kidney dysfunction before cutting the kidneys out of their tiny diseased bodies and feeding mice high-fat diets to cause fatty liver disease, diabetes, and obesity.
In other experiments, Daley’s staff irradiate mice, drill holes into their bones, and inject them with cancerous cells to create tumors. Most of the mice in Daley’s laboratory are killed, often when they are just babies.
Leading By Example
Many other Harvard Medical School experimenters have stuffed their fair share of scandalous skeletons in their laboratory closets.
Just over a year ago, five university-affiliated animal experimenters were accused of lying in published work and were investigated for manipulating data and plagiarizing images, leading to multiple papers being retracted.
Harvard also houses disgraced experimenter Margaret Livingstone, who removes baby monkeys from their mothers and terrorizes them in myriad pointless sensory-deprivation tests. Nearly 400 doctors, academics, lawyers, and scientists— including esteemed primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall— have called for an end to Livingstone’s pointless tax-funded torment.
What You Can Do
Killing animals for ineffective experiments is already despicable. But harming animals simply to pass off apparently manipulated data and get your name published while raking in millions of tax dollars is appallingly beyond the pale.
Harvard needs to shut down all cruel and pointless experiments on animals, starting with Margaret Livingstone’s sickening baby monkey experiments. Take action today to urge university officials to close the monkey laboratory.
