He got fired from the university. He was put on probation for five years with the d he basically decided that he was going to quit science and moved to italy. It was so bad that he left his country. Did he ever concede that he used improper science, that he fudged his results? No, he didn't. He actually stands by his data a hundred %.
A groundbreaking new study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. But the scientists behind it have a checkered past.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Tori Dominguez and Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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