Epidemiologist
MIT attempted to uncover an alleged case of fraud at its Lincoln Laboratory facility which does a great deal of work for the DoD. According to a story on local CBS station Channel 4, the evidence was considered "too sensitive" to reveal to MIT, the parent institution:
Officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the investigation in 2002, after a pair of federal reports found problems with tests of a missile defense sensor that MIT evaluated for the Department of Defense. One professor alleged the problems stemmed from deliberate research fraud.
But as soon as MIT announced its investigation of the Lexington lab, the Missile Defense Agency classified all information related to the allegations.
MIT president Charles M. Vest released a statement Thursday saying that even though MIT's panel of investigators all have ``appropriate security clearances,'' they have been denied access to the necessary material."
The Missle Defense Agency claims the following:
That office, in two reports in 2002, concluded the missile tests were flawed but found no fraud by MIT's researchers.
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