It seems that at least some of the primary authors, were starting PhD students.
For Ajees, as far as i know, he was given the mtz as soon as he joined the lab, told that they have this data for a while, and asked to see if the new software would do it. Not difficult to imagine. A. == I assume this is the denouement of the Ajees et al debacle a while back? Does this mean all authors on all of those papers were complicit? Otherwise, how would one author alone perpetrate this kind of thing? He pretends to go to the synchrotron, comes back with the hkl file, and goes from there? What about the crystals? Grows some lysozyme crystals, labels as protein x, proceeds to go "to the synchrotron" and then...? This whole thing is really hard to imagine--is there an "initiation" procedure in that lab, when the "noble lie" is revealed to all would-be authors? Jacob Keller
