Scientists protest professor’s dismissal

摘要

It is clear to us that neither Cho nor his close colleagues on the GAMMA-10 team intentionally misrepresented data. We cannot understand why the University of Tsukuba administration has taken the extreme action of dismissing a distinguished investigator. Cho has been open about his experimental and analytical techniques and has shared his data and methodology with his research team and with foreign collaborators from Russia and the US. We are concerned that the university’s actions against Cho constitute a form of scientific censorship. We believe that an appropriate international scientific panel should investigate the university’s behavior in this matter.