Harvard, home of the Herpes Bomb! Too loony for UAH or any other place, but she fit right in at Harvard.
For Professor, Fury Just Beneath the Surface
Quote:By SHAILA DEWAN, STEPHANIE SAUL and KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: February 20, 2010
Not long after Amy Bishop was identified as the professor who had been arrested in the shooting of six faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Feb. 12, the campus police received a series of reports even stranger than the shooting itself.
Several people with connections to the university's biology department warned that Dr. Bishop, a neuroscientist with a [regionally accredited] Harvard Ph.D., might have booby-trapped the science building with some sort of "herpes bomb," police officials said, designed to spread the dangerous virus.
Only people who had worked with Dr. Bishop would know that she had done work with the herpes virus as a post-doctoral student and had talked about how it could cause encephalitis. She had also written an unpublished novel in which a herpes-like virus spreads throughout the world, causing pregnant women to miscarry.
By the time of the reports, the police had already swept every room of the science building, finding nothing but a 9-millimeter handgun in the second-floor restroom.
But the anxious warnings reflected the fears of those who know Dr. Bishop that she could go to great lengths to retaliate against those she felt had wronged her.
Over the years, Dr. Bishop had shown evidence that the smallest of slights could set off a disproportionate and occasionally violent reaction, according to numerous interviews with colleagues and others who know her. Her life seemed to veer wildly between moments of cold fury and scientific brilliance, between rage at perceived slights and empathy for her students.
...She rejected criticism and fudged her resume. Her scientific work was not as impressive as she made it seem, according to independent neurobiologists, some of whom said she would have been unlikely to even get the opportunity to try for tenure at major universities.
She was known to have cyclical "flip-outs," as one former student described them, that pushed one graduate student after another out of her laboratory....
Dr. Hugo Gonzalez-Serratos, now a professor of physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, collaborated with Dr. Bishop on a 1996 paper while both were working in the cardiology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, affiliated with Harvard. When the paper was completed, Dr. Gonzalez-Serratos said, Dr. Bishop flew into a rage.
"She was very angry because she was not the first author," he recalled, referring to the more prominent position. "She broke down. She was extremely angry with all of us. She exploded into something emotional that we never saw before in our careers."
Her contract in the department was not renewed.
Even those who worked with her on fiction writing in Massachusetts described the experience as painful and said they always had a feeling she was about to explode.
"When I worked with her, I found she was always within striking distance of the edge," said Lenny Cavallaro, a writer who said he collaborated with Dr. Bishop on "Amazon Fever," the unpublished novel about the virus.
...Dr. Bishop also arrived in Huntsville with a padded resume, giving the impression that she had worked at Harvard two years longer than the university's records indicate.
Still, as a new professor with recommendations from Harvard and two other universities, Dr. Bishop did not attract scrutiny. She, her husband, a computer engineer who now works at a start-up company, and their four children settled into a house in a quiet subdivision, and she began her new job in the biology department.
At first, colleagues and students said, she came across as funny and extroverted, enthusiastic and knowledgeable about campus issues. She became the biology department's representative to the Faculty Senate -- not necessarily a coveted job, but one she seemed to enjoy.
She was, however, not universally liked. Some students say they found her so unresponsive that they signed a petition complaining that, among other things, her test questions went beyond what was covered in class. Dr. Bishop would say, "Well, my daughter took it and she got an A, so you should be able to do it,"? said Caitlin Phillips, a junior studying nursing.
Graduate students did not last long in her laboratory, and those familiar with the department said that most transferred to a different one before completing their degree. In May 2006, she dismissed a graduate student from her lab. The student promised to return some notebooks and a set of keys the next day, a person familiar with the incident said, but Dr. Bishop called the campus police that night, according to a campus police report. The student filed a grievance against her.
...In the winter of 2009, a smiling Dr. Bishop was shown on the cover of The Huntsville R & D Report.
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She was also on the cover of Toyota's Electronic Throttle Control Monthly last summer.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27014308/Amy-B...R-D-Report
A Case for Tenure That Some See as Falling Short
Quote:...The publications include a recent paper in The International Journal of General Medicine, published electronically by Dovepress, essentially a scientific vanity press. Dr. Bishop's paper in that journal, on nerve cells grown in the laboratory and exposed to drugs used to treat depression, lists her school-age children as the first three authors. The fourth author is herself, and the fifth is her husband, who is identified as being at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, although he does not have a position there.
As for Dr. Bishop's invention of an automated way to grow nerve cells in the laboratory, Dr. R. Douglas Fields of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said, "There is not a great need for it that I'm aware of."?
Although it was characterized as a way to keep nerve cells alive for long periods of time, researchers say they do that anyway using cheap and easily available petri dishes.
Effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors on motor neuron survival
Quote:Authors: Lily B Anderson, Phaedra B Anderson, Thea B Anderson, Amy Bishop, et al.
Published Date May 2009 , Volume 2009:2
Pending further investigation into alleged breaches of our manuscript submission criteria this paper has been removed from the dovepress.com website.
Isn't amazing what CAN (and WILL) happen in your professional life if you happen to be the right kind of person? All suddenly falls into place, eh? People magically either look your way or look elsewhere whenever it fits you.
Winston?Smith Wrote:Harvard, home of the Herpes Bomb! Too loony for UAH or any other place, but she fit right in at Harvard.
It's incredible that none of gang has offered any real opinion on this incident. How did this lunatic get hired in the first place?
Quote:How did this lunatic get hired in the first place?
Don't ask such impolite questions...haters, bigots, antisemites, nazis and KKK members might run away with the answer...you may want to turn the page to sports...
Geoff?Vankirk Wrote:It's incredible that none of gang has offered any real opinion on this incident.
Good point, Geoff. Who wouldn't be concerned about a Herpes Bomb? Unless, of course, you already had herpes. Hmmmm....
Gotta love Massachusetts. Right on top of things, they are. A mere 24 years after blasting her brother to death with a shotgun, the Harvard mental case prof gets charged. Not quite soon enough for her three Alabama colleagues.?
"Common sense" in MA? Now that's revolutionary!
And what about now U. S. Rep. William Delahunt, then county DA who dropped the ball? After spending $560,000 in campaign cash on "lavish meals and a family-friendly payroll" the Quincy hack conveniently quits to soak up a fat pension at taxpayer expense. Maybe his pal Hugo Shave Ass will throw him a going away party.
Quote:Ala. prof charged in brother's 1986 shooting death
CANTON, Mass. -- It was "obviously" a homicide case, a former prosecutor says, but authorities didn't have the evidence to present it to a grand jury at the time. Twenty-four-years lapsed and three other killings occurred before another prosecutor did.
Amy Bishop, the biology professor charged with killing three of her colleagues at an Alabama university, has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge in the 1986 shooting death of her brother in Massachusetts, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Prosecutors who originally concluded that Bishop accidentally killed her 18-year-old brother, Seth, now say police failed to share important evidence, including an alleged carjacking attempt by Amy Bishop after the shooting. They reopened the case after Bishop was charged in February with gunning down six of her colleagues at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, killing three.
Norfolk District Attorney William Keating said he did not understand why charges were never brought against Bishop.
"I can't give you any explanations, I can't give you excuses, because there are none," he said. "Jobs weren't done, responsibilities weren't met and justice wasn't served."
Bishop had told police who investigated her brother's death that she accidentally shot him while trying to unload her father's 12-gauge shotgun in the family's Braintree home. Her mother, Judith, the only witness to the shooting, confirmed her daughter's account to police.
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, who was then the Norfolk County district attorney, said that Braintree police never told anyone in his office that after Bishop shot her brother, she tried to commandeer a getaway car at gunpoint at a local car dealership, then refused to drop her gun until officers ordered her to do so repeatedly. Those events were described in Braintree police reports but not in a report written by a state police detective assigned to the district attorney's office.
The police chief of Braintree at the time of the shooting did not immediately return a phone call Wednesday seeking comment.
Investigators looking at an old crime scene photo from her brother's shooting discovered a newspaper article about the 1986 killings of actor Patrick Duffy's parents. The clipping, which was in Amy Bishop's bedroom, described how a teenager shot the "Dallas" star's parents with a 12-gauge shotgun and stole a getaway car from an auto dealership.
Keating ordered an inquest, which was held in April. Nineteen witnesses, including the Bishops' parents, testified before Quincy District Court Judge Mark Coven during the closed-door inquest. A grand jury heard evidence this month.
Delahunt's first assistant district attorney, John Kivlan, said the inquest was important to consider evidence, including the newspaper clipping, that he did not have in 1986.
"Had this and other evidence been reported to the District Attorney's Office at the time, it would obviously have been presented to a Grand Jury and an indictment for intentional homicide, or murder, could have resulted at that time," Kivlan said in a statement released Wednesday by Delahunt's congressional office.
Keating said the indictment, brought 24 years after Seth Bishop's death, brought little comfort.
"You're never satisfied when a young boy, a young man, has lost his life," he said. "You're never satisfied when justice isn't served. You're never satisfied, when using your common sense, in all likelihood, three individuals in Alabama that were killed might not have been because the defendant wouldn't have been in that room."
It did not seem likely that Amy Bishop would return to Massachusetts to face the new charges anytime soon, if at all.
Keating indicated that Bishop would first have to stand trial in Alabama for the university shootings before she could be tried in Massachusetts, and there would be no chance of her returning if she was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty in Alabama.
Keating also said it would be up to Coven to decide if transcripts of the inquest would be released.
An attorney representing Amy Bishop in the Alabama shootings, Roy Miller, didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment on the Massachusetts charges, nor did her husband. Miller has indicated he is considering an insanity defense for Bishop.
The chief prosecutor in Huntsville, Madison County District Attorney Robert Broussard, didn't immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. He has said an Alabama grand jury would likely consider charges against Bishop in the university shooting by late summer.
Quote:U.S. Rep. William Delahunt shells out $500G from coffers
By Jessica Van Sack
Friday, February 26, 2010
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt blew nearly $560,000 in campaign cash last year - much of it on lavish meals and a family-friendly payroll that includes his ex-wife, son-in-law and daughter - stoking speculation the Quincy Democrat is emptying his war chest and won't seek re-election.
Nickolai Bobrov, who is married to Delahunt's daughter Kara, has raked in $47,732 since landing on the payroll as the congressman's campaign manager in July, including a $10,000 payment that month marked retroactive for "consulting services April-July,"? according to campaign finance records.
Quote:Delahunt won't seek reelection
Says "it's time" after long career, and Bishop case not a factor
By Susan Milligan
Globe Staff / March 5, 2010
WASHINGTON - Representative William D. Delahunt will announce today that he will not seek reelection to Congress, ending a nearly 40-year career in elected office and giving Republicans hope of capturing the district, which stretches from Cape Cod to the South Shore.
...The congressman has faced recent questions about the handling of the 1986 Amy Bishop shooting case, which occurred in Braintree when he was Norfolk district attorney. Backed up by his then-top prosecutor, Delahunt has said consistently that his office was not told that Bishop fled with a loaded weapon after killing her brother in what police then called an accident.
...Delahunt established himself in Washington as a leading voice on Latin American and Caribbean issues, traveling many times to Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela, where he negotiated with President Hugo Chavez to provide discounted oil from Venezuela, the fourth-largest supplier of foreign oil to the United States.
He also hosted a "Grupo de Boston" weekend on Cape Cod with Venezuelan government and opposition leaders, hoping to end the feuding by having them spend time together in a neutral place. ...
The unicorn killer, a prominent left wing extremist who by chance happened to be a Jew, was released on a low bail after the decomposed body of his former girlfriend had been found in his house following protestations by neighbors. A parade of Jewish intelligentsia vouched for Einhorn's good character and he was set free. Bail was allegedly paid by some of the Bronfman family.
Einhorn fled the country and was captured in France only 16 years later. In his case (akin to the case of director Polanski in Switzerland and Italian left wing terrorist/murderer Battisti in Brazil ), the influential circus of you-know-whos mobilized to almost bring French justice to an impasse over a simple case of extradition for murder. You may remember in Polanski's case no less than the Swiss deputy minister of justice hurried to make clear that it will take ages only to go through all the casuistry and appeals. In Polanski's case, I think he stepped on some feet he wasn't supposed to, and they wanted him to pay pulling some old facts from the archive of shame everybody has an entry in.
ham Wrote:You may remember in Polanski's case no less than the Swiss deputy minister of justice hurried to make clear that it will take ages only to go through all the casuistry and appeals. In Polanski's case, I think he stepped on some feet he wasn't supposed to, and they wanted him to pay pulling some old facts from the archive of shame everybody has an entry in.
Polanski lives a 5 minute helicopter ride from the French border. When he gets bored, he's gone. The stupid thing is that he served a sentence, albeit quite short, mandated by some moron judge.
Here is a classic example of a DL Truth thread. You have the opportunity to have an intelligent discussion, but it quickly unravels into a foodfight of undercooked logic and personal attacks. What I have learned from this thread:
1) Someone got killed.
2) It wouldn't have happened if the school wasn't Regionally Accredited.
3) It is somehow 100% George Gollin's fault.
4) It is somehow 100% Obama's fault.
5) Something about a herpes bomb...?
Cogito?Ergo?Odd Wrote:What I have learned from this thread:
Better work on that reading comprehension. Or just round up another 15 friends to 'splain it to you.