Jamie Brodie 01 - Cited to Death

Tangible results being babies."
    "Maybe. I also thought that Ben Goldstein was really unhappy to see us."
    "Oh, yeah. Very unhappy. The only one that was cool with it, and the most forthcoming, was Dr. Wray."
    "Yeah. She also seemed to be the one who really knows what’s going on in the lab."
    "That's probably how they divide up the work. Oliver takes care of the fundraising and Wray takes care of the lab."
    "Mmm hmm." I thought for a minute. "I wonder what Goldstein's role is? He didn't move from his workstation while we were there, but it didn't seem like Oliver or Wray expected him to."
    Pete shrugged. "He seemed to me to be just another employee."
    "Yeah, maybe. He's the link to Dan, though. I'm not comfortable with that."
    "Me either."
    My follow up appointment with my primary care doctor was at 11:00. Pete pulled up to the entrance to the medical plaza at 10:30. “How about I meet you for dinner?”
    “I have class tonight, my final class meeting. It starts at 5:30.”
    “Okay, then say 4:00? That’ll give us plenty of time to get something on campus.”
    “Okay. Sounds good.” I gave Pete a smile. “Thanks for all this. I really appreciate it.”
    “Don’t mention it. I’ll see you at four.” Pete drove off in plenty of time to get to his 11:15 class.
    In Dr. Weikal’s office, I checked email on my laptop while I waited. I got called back to the exam room about fifteen minutes after my scheduled appointment. Dr. Weikal came in almost immediately. He asked me how I was feeling, ran my lung function tests, listened to my chest. He pronounced me nicely improved from Monday and told me to keep taking the medications and taking steamy showers and staying away from irritants. He had me schedule another appointment for a week from today, when I would have been off the steroid pills for a couple of days.
    It was nearly noon, and I was hungrier than usual – a side effect of the steroids. I stopped at the student center to get a sandwich, then walked up to Wilson Plaza to eat. I finished up and headed for my office, getting there about 12:30. I had 30 minutes before my reference shift. I said hello to everyone, sent Dr. Loomis my sick leave forms for Monday, yesterday and this morning, sorted through the mail, and locked my laptop in my filing cabinet. I still didn’t have a desktop computer, but that was okay.
    At 1:30, Clinton arrived. Liz said, “Hi, Clinton.”
    “The word of the day is bathetic .” He bowed and walked away.
    “That one sounds familiar.” Liz looked it up. “I thought so. Displaying insincere emotion.”
    Heh . Kind of like Dr. Oliver this morning, pretending to be so pleased to see us. All he’d really wanted was Pete’s money.
    After reference, there was nothing on my calendar. I decided to try to finish up the unscrambling of the Welsh article.
    I started putting the sentences together. It was slow going. It took me nearly a half hour to get through the review of literature. As I’d noted with the methodology, a lot of the terminology and phrases seemed similar to the ones in Oliver’s article. It still didn't strike me as unusual.
    Until I got to the results section.
    I’d paid close attention to the results section of Oliver’s article. Even though I didn't understand some of the terminology, I thought I had the basic idea of what had been done and how it had turned out.
    And the results section of the Welsh article sounded a lot like the one from Oliver’s article.
    But how was that possible? One procedure hadn't worked, one had. How could the results section be similar?
    I had to make sure. I pulled my copy of Oliver’s article out of my computer bag, and opened it to the results section.
    Not only were they similar, they matched word for word. The only difference was that the negative terms had been removed. All the "did nots" had been changed to "dids." All the "did not reacts" had been changed to "reacted with."
    I was astounded. It occurred to me that I’d never thought to check the references page for a citation of the Welsh article. I flipped to the back of Oliver’s article. There was no citation for Hughes and Llewellyn.
    I turned to the front of Oliver’s article and paged up the screen to the top of the Welsh article, and started comparing. The abstract, like the results section,was identical to Oliver’s article, with the negatives removed. The introductions, reviews of literature, and methodologies were identical, period. The statistics were