Vice chancellor Professor Brooks said it had been a "desperately sad week" for the whole university community following the discovery of Mr Pal's body.
The reason they won acceptance for their theory was because they began to frame the discovery in terms that were acceptable to the community of gastroenterologists whose work was undermined by their discovery.
Minkow spent 7 years in prison thinking about his mistake and returned to found the Fraud Discovery Institute and became a pastor at Community Bible Church in San Diego (good gig for a convert from Judaism).
On a recent mission of discovery, I traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, to visit with the Jewish community as it responded to the latest attacks against two synagogues.
Anybody in the scientific community will tell you that anybody who wants to lead the world in scientific exploration and discovery has to do flagships every once in a while.