Jean's hypothesis was disarmingly elegant, beautifully simple. But it remained a work of science fiction. When I asked him why he didn't publish the data from his experiments, which he assured me he had been carrying out for years, he shrugged it off. "Nobody going to believe it anyway," he said. The public perception of scientists as morally unassailable was often misplaced, and Jean had a poor record in this area – indeed, all our ugliest clashes were over questions of ethics. Scientific rigour, specifically Jean's disregard for it, was the most common theme of these disputes. So I had a basis for the conclusion I came to at the time: that he had either chosen to ignore the data when they didn't support his hypothesis, or that he had never found a way to test it in the first place. I was wrong on both counts.
David Nassar – The Cosmic Wheel
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