David Latchman

heavily and i can give you some examples where harsh treatment was handed out stephen eaton for example at a company in edinburgh falsified pre-clinical trial data for an anti-cancer drug he was jailed for three months and hans eisenick who's a german man who studied in england and hans eisenick in 2019 a kco inquiry deemed 26 of his co-authored papers unsafe and warrington retraction 13 were attracted so look the difference is for these individuals the coverage is almost entirely in specialist and science outlets the pattern is not that white academics get away with it people have been sacked and stripped of their doctorates steve eaton went to prison but the pattern is the type and the tone of coverage latchman holmes o'reilly eisnick there were findings against all of them much stronger than what jason had but all of them were handled as an academic integrity story a bit of a trade press story a specialist story there was facts those processes and there was outcome and people moved on jason had lesser findings than any of them but he was treated and handled as if it was a culture war his whole life and biography was audited and and bolted onto the story it highlighted something so prevalent in the uk that we can't hide from a lot of political talking points in the uk are starting to get pulled from america the rise of the american right has boldened the british right and this heavy pushback against dei which doesn't even make sense because it's not even that big of a thing in the uk is what i feel has caused this barely one percent of professors in the uk are even black anyway so we really need to look at what's actually happening here Nobody went through William O'Reilly's childhood.

Nobody rang David Latchman's old schoolmates.

Nobody pulled Dr. Ros Holmes charity funding raising page from 20 or 30 years ago.

And that's the difference.

Because that's what happened to William O'Reilly.

Upheld finding, article retracted, three articles about it, but he kept his job.

That's what happened to David Latchman.

Six retractions, no case to answer, still kept his job.