My guess -based on no real knowledge - is that this must have to do with something else other the WPI.
Except that it was issued from Washoe county, directly after the lawsuit was filed.
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This is disturbing in so many ways.
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My guess -based on no real knowledge - is that this must have to do with something else other the WPI.
I don't think we know why this occurred. Could the lawsuit result in an actual arrest? They have accused her of stealing intellectual property.......an arrest just doesn't seem in order here. A research institute arresting a former employee- that just doesn't seem right...(????).
It is hardball. On the other hand that missing data took alot of money and effort to acquire and the WPI feels its very important and they may feel they have no other options. If you were missing data and you believed someone took it and it was clear they were not going to give it back - what would you do? I would probably actually have them arrested in order to prod them to give it back. Then I would drop the case when I got it back.
On the other hand Dr. Mikovits says she never took the data...
Somebody is not telling the truth....
Mikovits has said the keys are always left in a certain place at the WPI so other lab personal always have access.
Maybe one of the other lab workers got paid a big bribe to steal those the important info for someone else or took it for themselves. For all we know the info could of ended up in some government hands.
What I wish to know is hasnt that place got security cameras??? couldnt they be used to see who was in that location at the time the offense took place? Mikovits says she wasnt even there.. if she was.. wouldnt security footage somewhere show it?
If someone is deemed a flight risk a lawsuit can result in actual arrest .... and they wont set a bail in that case. (eg if she wasnt supposed to go out of state but did)
I'm not surprised that the data was not as secure as one might have hoped - because I imagine that these types of things rarely happen. On the other hand - I wouldn't think anyone would go to the trouble to steal it because there are so many problems with XMRV now and the research world is moving on.
If you presented the data as your own - how would you account for it? There's not a University in the world that would allow you to just all of a sudden show up with all this data....
I don't see a big motive for some researcher sneaking into the WPI's lab. Its far more likely, unfortunately, that its connected with the firing...
Dear oh dear Cort - watching it all from here is just awful - that the WPI have sunk to this level is almost unbelievable wherever the notes are.
I see your points Cort and one could speculate endlessly about what really happened - however the complete breakdown of trust between the parties involved is obvious. Can't do anyone's reputation any good.
I see your points Cort and one could speculate endlessly about what really happened - however the complete breakdown of trust between the parties involved is obvious. Can't do anyone's reputation any good.
The termination was bad enough but as soon as that data (whatever it is) disappeared things changed. I think its hard to imagine Dr. Mikovits actually taking study data from the WPI (it is for me) but the WPI clearly thinks that's what's happened. They have surely tried to get it back using other means and its clearly not coming back that way....so what do you do? What is there left to do?
If its really important data I would probably do what they're doing... I don't know if I would have done it as fast or if I would tried harder to get it back another way
As long as Dr. Mikovits is out of work she can't use the data even if she does have it. If this is big enough to bring a lawsuit over - it sounds like its pretty important - then its a substantial amount of information on XMRV and CFS. It sounds like not having it there may be holding up their current research efforts.
Maybe that's it. Maybe according to the lawsuit she wasn't supposed to leave the state until the matter was handled. Then when she left the state - that resulted in an arrest and no bail. That would make sense.
Does no one find it's interesting and very coincidental that dr. Mikovits is held without bail, can not return to her home until Nov. 22nd while she was scheduled to speak at dr. Enlander's meeting Nov.20th this Sunday. Because she can not return home she can also not participate via video or audio like dr.Bell is going to. Did someone wanted to prevent her from participating in that meeting? If that is not the case I find their timing very odd.
And I would have thought solely for PR reasons WPI would try to avoid a public legal battle like this. As others have said, it makes their own security look bad for one, and for two, in the past (like with Dr P) they handled their differences with a real grace and gentility. I don't know how anyone expects to bounce back from this. They knew she was going back to her home in CA anyway. To blindside her and Lilly with a criminal search and to arrest her for just returning home on suspicion of possessing the material--well that's just bad form from every angle.