It Gets Better, Indeed.

The tenure-track Stanford professor who uncovered scientific fraud as a Berkeley graduate student by a fellow researcher at UCLA tells the story of his journey to silence his doubts, uncover some true facts, and reveal his conclusions.

Dramatic stuff, especially the ending, which attempts to explain why he felt almost a personal calling to persevere as he did.

“Part of the message that I wanted to send to potential disclosers of the future is that you have a duty to come out about this, you’ll be rewarded if you do so in a responsible way, and you don’t want to live with the regret that I do that I didn’t act on it [sooner]. This is sort of my It Gets Better project for people with suspicions about research.”