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A similar case of a forensic lab being a perjury factory was the Motherisk program in Ontario, which forged drug detection in hair samples to remove kids from c
by motohagiography 5y ago
A similar case of a forensic lab being a perjury factory was the Motherisk program in Ontario, which forged drug detection in hair samples to remove kids from custodial care. These systems are rotten.
In politics, you can see people who are corrupt like this getting rewarded with promotions for having taken one for the team. I see it in companies as well, where if you take on the risk from committing fraud, you can use it as leverage.
There are numerous cases where I see managers telling subordinates to fudge data of all kinds, and the ones who don't lie get managed out, and the ones who do lie get promoted. The tactic is to get someone to do something compromising or illegal on your behalf, so you can take credit for the outcome, but the person bullied into lying holds the risk. The only people who ever get persecuted or prosecuted are the ones who threaten to give away the game. The dynamic is covered in the concept of a Moral Maze (https://hbr.org/1983/09/moral-mazes-bureaucracy-and-managerial-work https://hbr.org/1983/09/moral-mazes-bureaucracy-and-manageri...).
You can't fix corruption and adulteration. The only way out is to fork a new organization and create a gate that prevents the corruption from taking root in the new org, and even then I've seen it creep back. The alternative is to make grisly examples, but nobody has the stomach for that.
- starwind 5y agoI got fired from one job after my manager told me to fake results and I didn't. I went into a job interview a few days later and I summed it up as "they were asking me to do things with the data I wasn't comfortable with." Guy interviewing me was like "been there," and we moved right on from it. Got the job too
- throw_away 5y agoBTW, Jackall expanded that HBR essay into an entire book. Highly recommended if you want to get entirely black-pilled on corporate work. Wikipedia says it was a favorite of Aaron Swartz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes
- mistrial9 5y ago> Motherisk program a quick read of four or five related Wikipedia articles shows a lifetime of fraud perpetrated by Motherisk founder Dr Gideon Koren, complete with threats of countersuit, piles of falsified research papers in publication, repeated denial and then being caught, and losing his license to practice medicine at age 70+ eye-opening to see this information given the status of US AMA Physicians these days, in income, authority and protection from meaningful punishment also the psychology of using authority to remove children from the care of their biological mother, over and over and over.. combined with academic hubris publishing falsified research over and over and over.. combined with prominent cultural activities.. this individual has done a lot of harm in a way that defeats trust and true authority
- ransom1538 5y ago"So far, the Ontario review has identified 50 cases where Motherisk’s tests had a significant impact on decisions to remove children from their families. Many of those decisions can’t be undone." Sorry what? They take your kids away because of a hair drug test, realize their tests are inaccurate, then explain to you years later -- you still cannot have your kids back?