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Taleyarkhan settles suit with 1 of 2 colleagues
Staff Reports
The [Lafayette, Indiana] Journal & Courier
Saturday, March 14, 2009
A defamation lawsuit filed by a Purdue University nuclear engineering professor against a department colleague has been settled, the plaintiff's attorney said Friday.
Rusi Taleyarkhan, who claims to have discovered a relatively safe and inexpensive form of nuclear energy known as bubble fusion, filed a civil suit against Tatjana Jevremovic last year in Tippecanoe County. The lawsuit claimed defamation, civil harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
According to John Lewis, Taleyarkhan's Indianapolis attorney, Jevremovic offered to settle the suit, which accused her of making a false statement to the magazine Nature about Taleyarkhan.
Jevremovic, an associate professor of nuclear engineering, did not respond to
e-mail or phone calls seeking comment Friday evening.
The terms of the settlement are confidential, Lewis said.
A similar suit against Lefteri Tsoukalas, a Purdue nuclear engineering professor, remains in place.
"The rest of the suit continues, and we will proceed according to any court calendar," Lewis said. "And we have no idea how this (settlement) will impact the future of that lawsuit."
Last year, Taleyarkhan was found guilty of research misconduct by Purdue for adding a student's name to a journal paper knowing the student wasn't involved in the research. The university also claimed he told another journal that his research had been independently verified even though he had been involved in the verification experiment.
For punishment, he was stripped of a named professorship but he kept his tenured position on the faculty.
Taleyarkhan has filed a complaint against Purdue with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission because he claims he wasn't given due process in the misconduct investigation. He claims the charges he was found guilty of were fabricated.
COMMENTS
Purdue's fabricated allegations explained:
Report: Purdue Knew: Purdue's Persecution of Professor Rusi Taleyarkhan
http://newenergytimes.com/BubbleTrouble/2009PurdueKnew.htm
Video: Bubblegate: How Purdue Fabricated the Allegations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPZ0H4wZj04
Bubblegate Special Report
http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET31.htm#bgintro
Steven B. Krivit
Editor, New Energy Times
http://newenergytimes.com/
3/14/2009 3:23:38 AM
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Taleyarkhan did not add the name. This is a lie.
Yiban Xu Affidavit: paras. 8,13:
“I decided to include Butt as co-author. ... I added Butt during early 2005 to be co-author of the...paper because of the overlap of the NED and NURETH-11 papers. Butt was excited. ... Butt participated in data acquisition for sonoluminescent signals from … Butts name was on the paper since Jan. 2005 and the conference was held during October, 2005. ... Neither I ... nor Revankar nor Taleyarkhan pressured Butt in any way, shape or form.”
http://newenergytimes.com/BubbleTrouble/Aff/Xu-Yiban-Jan31-2008.pdf
Taleyarkhan and his five co-authors had every right to claim their work was independently confirmed:
http://newenergytimes.com/BubbleTrouble/
BubblegateJudgingIndependence.htm
The editor of the journal, Daniel Kulp, had no quarrel with the group's opinion that their work had been confirmed.
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/bubblegate/2008/KULP-TaleyarkhanFinalExchange.pdf
Bubblegate: Purdue's Big Lie
3/14/2009 3:51:33 AM
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