32 Quotes by Donald Kennedy

There is no question in our minds that the stem cell paper published 19 May 2005 by the journal Science needs to be retracted.

We're sort of pondering what they mean by research misbehavior, which is not in anybody's anthology of terms about research impropriety.

There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.

The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence.

Since we do not yet have sufficient information to proceed with the retraction, we are issuing this statement so that readers are aware that concerns have been raised about the validity of the data in this paper.

He has made it much more of a place that has a plan and a vision about its own role and its own future, ... Plainly, Caltech has flourished. I dreamed he would have gone on forever.

He got out with just the clothes on his back.

I think it's a 'sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander' proposition. If you're going to be a full co-author and share in the credit for an accomplishment, then you have to take the fall if it's wrong.

It is a recipe only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup,