2 NOVEMBER 2019
By David Tuller, DrPH
In an interesting and unexpected development in the ongoing saga of my dispute with the University of Bristol, the chief executive of the National Health Service’s Health Research Authority sent a gracious note about my work to Carol Christ, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, on Wednesday, October 31. I did not ask the HRA to send such a letter, so I was surprised–and pleased–when my department head forwarded it to me.
Berkeley has strongly supported my right to make my case. No one from my department or the university has questioned my integrity or the accuracy of my investigative reporting on the methodological and ethical lapses in this domain of scientific inquiry. Half a dozen of my faculty colleagues have signed various open letters I have organized. Having said that, it certainly doesn’t hurt to have the regulatory agency overseeing research ethics for the NHS express official appreciation for my role in this academic dispute....................................................
