Three days later, the Journal of Neuroscience received a submission: “Induction of False Memory Traces in Human Neurons via Subtherapeutic Dosing of Compound 7-K.” The corresponding author was Dr. Barbara Brill. The conflict of interest statement read: The author has no financial ties to Brill Biomedical. However, she would like to note that her employer attempted to suppress this data and that copies have been filed with the Office of Research Integrity and three national news outlets.
Behind her, in Dr. Voss’s office, the phone was already ringing. Reporters. Regulators. A board member asking why the stock price was dropping. barbie brill lab rat
Barbie didn’t scream. She didn’t run to the dean. She did what any good lab rat does when she smells something rotten in the autoclave: she replicated. Three days later, the Journal of Neuroscience received
And somewhere in the Brill Biomedical servers, a scheduled task deleted the last traces of Voss’s original macaque study. Too late, though. However, she would like to note that her