Fortunately, I already had an appointment to meet with the President of my University, in my capacity as Chair of the University Senate. It has always been my experience that knowing the rules and playing by them is a powerful approach.

I decided to investigate the policies of my University on defending employees who are engaged in professional activities. Then I began to consider the costs of defending against the lawsuit. RW: What was your immediate reaction when you learned you were being sued?ĭS: Honestly, initially I thought that it was amusing. The New York Times and the journalists were also sued. The complaint was later expanded to incorporate a quotation from me in the New York Times article and some material in an article published in another newspaper. Croce by Glanz and Agustin Armendariz resulted from their investigation. An article on the front page of the New York Times about Dr.

Glanz cited a synthesis of some of the opinions I expressed to him as a source. Glanz poses a series of questions about a number of matters including image mishandling and plagiarism in the papers of Dr. Why?ĭavid Sanders (DS): The initial complaint was about the contents of a letter sent by a New York Times reporter, James Glanz, to Dr. Retraction Watch (RW): Carlo Croce sued you in 2017. (It has left a mark on Croce, too, in the form of 10 retractions and two suits brought by teams of lawyers for unpaid bills. He eventually prevailed, but the episode left a mark, as readers will learn in this Q&A. In one of those cases, that of Ohio State University professor Carlo Croce, Sanders ended up being sued - before an article in which he was quoted even came out. Sanders, a biologist at Purdue University, has become a scientific sleuth, ferreting out problems in numerous papers. Retraction Watch readers may be familiar with the name David Sanders.

Dr sanders new york times