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It's actually pretty easy to figure out what document was linked to explain his involvement in the investigation. If you look at the URL of the now-inaccessible
by makomk 9y ago
It's actually pretty easy to figure out what document was linked to explain his involvement in the investigation. If you look at the URL of the now-inaccessible document it ends with INQ007647. That's the identifier of the statement to the Litvinenko inquiry describing the late 2010 reassessment of how much radiation Litvinenko was exposed to based on the new discovery that he'd been exposed twice, which it specifically mentions Dr. Puncher was involved in. I linked to the copy of that document on the inquiry website in my original comment. It wasn't just a case of Buzzfeed linking to the wrong document either; I looked at the earlier documents which it was a follow-up to and the earlier work was all done by other scientists.
- zuzun 9y agoThanks for your explanation! Since HN cut of your URLs, the similarity between the filenames didn't jump to my eye. You're right, 2007 doesn't mention Puncher, it only mentions his close colleague Birchall. Both were publishing articles together around the time [1-4], so I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't work on such a high-profile case that was being solved by their computer software [2]. Since Buzzfeed authors talked to Birchall and Puncher’s family, I trust their accounts of his involvement. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16410294 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16410294 [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132655 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132655 [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18003710 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18003710 [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18806256 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18806256