This site contains evidence of fraud and criminal conspiracy perpetrated by the following: President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) A. Brzustowski, former Ontario Minister D. Cunningham, former Ont. Attorney General J. Flaherty, University of Toronto President R. Birgeneau, University of Toronto professors: I. Orchard, D. Dewees, B. Roots, S. Desser, P. Gooch, E. Larsen. The evidence will expose the totally corrupt (no clean hands) administration in Canada.
In 1981 I began Ph.D. research at the University of Toronto. I walked into a trap: after five years, I was removed from the University and the credit for my work and my discoveries was stolen by the professor-supervisor and three other people. I received no degree.
Michael Pyshnov. Toronto, Canada.
The details of the fraud and the links to scanned documents are here:
On this page below are the subsequent events, the present situation, the links to other pages of this web site and insight into the social causes of the continuing fraud.
Fraud is so obvious
My research is stolen
In 1986, after 5 years of very successful research, my Ph.D. program was terminated despite the official assurance that I had at least one more year to finish the thesis.
Although Chair of the Department of Zoology wrote to me (Doc. 20), that the manuscript has been withdrawn, Larsen subsequently published it, slightly changed, under her name. Comparing her paper (Doc. 21) with this manuscript (Doc. 11) gives the proof of plagiarism.
There is no doubt about who was the author of the research in the withdrawn manuscript.
In this letter she also said: "I intend, however, to submit the results of a similar study (performed by myself and an undergraduate) in the very near future...".
As a sadistic burglar who leaves a "thank you" note in the house, Larsen wrote in a footnote: "We thank Michael Pyshnov for sharing his silver staining technique and his ideas with us." She lied about the "sharing", she should have rather acknowledged my protest.
In the two papers published before this article, she was pretending that this research had already been published (to avoid accusations of stealing and of breaching confidentiality). She was giving a bogus reference to a non-existent publication. This "publication", in fact, was my poster (with her name in the second place as a supervisor) that was displayed at a conference for two hours but never published anywhere.
A more calculated fraud is difficult to imagine.
When I found that all my research was stolen and complained to the University, Larsen wrote an explanation (Doc. 25).
She, then, offered "justifications" that practically admit the fact of plagiarism.
One "justification" was the same one that communists used while taking away private property: she said that my discoveries belong not to me, but to "community" and that therefore she was entitled to publish my research under her own name. She said that I can not "suppress the use of ideas".
Another was this: "The results of the second paper corroborate the first...". But, the "first" is not published; for the readers her paper is the original research, not a corroborating data. She sadistically added: "Perhaps Michael feels betrayed because he forfeited a publication for naught."
The University fraud
There were two University of Toronto own investigations (Doc. 24 and 27) from which it is obvious that in her "similar study" Larsen stole my research. For example, first investigator stated that she "repeated" my experiments; second - that her paper had "replications or extensions" of my results and that she did not acknowledge this fact.
I doubt that Larsen even repeated my experiments. But, whatever she repeated or replicated, she published a forgery and stole the authorship of my research. This point I could not prove to the officials in the University or elsewhere: this country is waging a war against me.
Moreover, the University administration continued the fraud in still another direction: a theory was invented that Larsen "salvaged" my research when I refused to publish the manuscript!
The fact that Larsen started stealing my research before I refused to publish this manuscript was ignored; her two earlier, above mentioned articles were not investigated.
Two types of "justifications" are seen in the documents.
My academic record falsified
Falsification of the authorship of my research is of course a falsification of my academic record. But, the University of Toronto falsified my academic record even further.
How barbarous was the University fraud can be seen from the following.
In 1980, a year before I came to the University of Toronto, I published a study of the patterns of cell division in an organism (J. Theor. Biol., v.87, p.189-200; scanned here).
My Ph.D. research which started with certain predictions from my theory that were all proved later experimentally, the discovery of the "whorls" and, also predicted by me, discovery of embryonic cell patterns responsible for the structure of adult organs, all this (admitted as my work, my ideas and my discoveries by Larsen in her letters and other documents written by her) was judged by the University of Toronto absolutely insufficient for the degree.
This University did a horrific fraud in science as well. The University terminated the research in the important area of science, to which my work made great contributions. It has not "salvaged" anything.
The fraud of "academic decision"
Larsen terminated my research to steal it. She wrote the fraudulent and garbled "academic decision" (Doc. 8). Later, in their documents, Larsen and the University of Toronto lied, giving different reasons why my Ph.D. program was terminated or even denying that it was terminated:
What Larsen did can be studied as an encyclopedia of fraud in academia. University investigations were a criminal sham from the start: the University did not let anyone from the Department of Zoology, nor any biologist, talk to me.
It needs to be noted that contrary to what many would suspect, there was no personal conflict between me and anyone in the University at all. Larsen, giving explanations in that Doc. 25, even said that I left "amicably".
Every document that I received from the University of Toronto (and later, from the governmental officials) contained lies sadistically denying obvious facts. The claim of "salvaging" was one of the first in a long line of acts calculated to deny me the dignity of a human being and of a scientist.
An example of fraudulent justification for "salvaging", from the Statement of Defense, paragraph 21:
Please, note that Doc. 19 and 25 are Larsen's side of the story.
Among the documents there is an Appeal from the Graduate Students' Union to the members of the faculty with the request to speak out (Doc. 34) and another protest from a professor sent to the Chair of the Department and the U of T President.
Canada's war against a scientist
Canada made a mockery of my constitutional right to the protection of Law. The administration in both, the Ontario and the Federal government, had defended the professors-criminals. Police, at all levels, refused to investigate the fraud.
This country must understand that destroying my life and my name and causing for eighteen years such agony is not possible without paying for it.
My research must be returned under my name. All the legal consequences must follow: the compensation to me must be paid, the criminals who committed the fraud and all who covered up the fraud must be prosecuted.
But, time is running out. The continuing fraud and provocation make me sick. I will never ever agree to accept the present situation as the final result of my life. The sadistic provocation must end. The Rule of Law must be restored. The conspiracy of silence must be broken.
This warning was first issued on August 14, 2003. There will be no further warning.
U of T President and the fraud
On July 19, 2000, I came to the University of Toronto campus and began distributing my documents to hundreds of people, students and professors. 11,000 copies of the Open Letter to CBC President were distributed.
On April 24, 2001, after nine months of protest, the following Petition with 417 signatures and my letter (Doc. 42) were delivered to the U of T President.
Dr. Robert Birgeneau,
Petition
Dear Dr. Birgeneau,
The evidence that Mr. M. Pyshnov has presented to the University community makes us ask you to identify and release any document that may refute his allegations of fraud and cover-up (in: "Ruthless Science Fraud at the University of Toronto"). Mr. Pyshnov does not object to the disclosure of any evidence whatsoever.
If such evidence does not exist, we urge you to take immediate measures to stop the crime. The present situation is worrying us and we welcome your detailed comments on the case.
Yours sincerely,
On May 17, the Petition was cynically rejected. Here is the answer (Doc. 43):
May 17, 2001
Dear Mr. Pyshnov:
In response to your letter to me of April 24, 2001 I have been informed that your complaint was fully investigated by the University and by NSERC. The University considers the matter closed.
Yours sincerely,
How was it "investigated"? The investigations were arranged in such way that I could not talk to a biologist, to anyone who could understand the articles in question, even a single time! I delivered a second letter (Doc. 44), pointing to this travesty and to other efforts of the University of Toronto to cover up the fraud.
Obviously, the fraud goes so deep that the President did not want to answer the specific points in the petition and in my letters.
Events in the last year
Letter to the NSERC President A. Brzustowski
Dear Dr. Brzustowski,
In your letter of February 24, 2003, you have admitted that you reviewed the file.
You know that NSERC said: "The Committee considered that Dr. Larsen behaved in a reasonable manner given your refusal to have the 1987 article published."
You know that the Committee covered up the fraud, because:
You are a well educated person, you know that two plus two can not equal one. When you see such fraudulent result, but you write: "There is no basis for any new action on this matter by NSERC", you are continuing covering up the fraud. You refer to the "policies in effect at the time", but you know that there can not be any policy that allows covering up fraud.
You must stop this fraud or resign.
Yours,
The conspiracy
Why my research is still not returned under my name?
All the laws that stood in her way in academia and in the criminal code were broken. Yet, she was and she is now absolutely certain about her total impunity. In her explanation to the Chair of the Department (Doc. 25), she carelessly and sadistically celebrates the success of roguery and the demise of the victim and makes an exercise in openly fraudulent demagogy. Her justifications are openly ridiculous; it is not possible that anyone could sincerely believe in her innocence. Her successful avoiding of prosecution continued on the scale of the state. Somehow, she had each and every official in her pocket.
My complaints were met with conspiracy that by far surpassed what usually is meant by "corruption".
In civil court:
Having a couple of hundred dollars and without a lawyer, I went to the court. The first judge, in 20 minutes that remained to the end of the day, made 12 mistakes (corrected later by the Court of Appeal where I, also, did not have a lawyer) and agreed with the University of Toronto that the court has no jurisdiction over what the University called "academic matters". The University lawyers not only dragged time (extending a 30-day limit for delivering Statement of Defense to 17 months) but stated to the court that I should be panhandling to pay the court fees. Their friends in the Law Society had rejected my application for Legal Aid five times.
Moreover, the University of Toronto made it completely impossible for me to bring the matter to trial: defending Larsen, the administration perverted and falsified the universally recognized academic rules and definitions, making the fraud not a fraud at all. At the same time, they sent a letter to every professor of the Department of Zoology and silenced the potential witnesses - their own professors, who have the authority to say in court what the real rules and definitions are. (The letter was sent on the next morning after I asked the faculty to give expert opinions on Larsen's plagiarized papers.)
Ontario Government:
My repeated complaints to the Ontario Government (Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, formerly, Ministry of Education) to which the University is accountable were met with refusal to follow the due process, misstating of the law and procedure and even misstating of my complaint itself, and denial of jurisdiction. My complaints were never answered in substance. Premier of Ontario, Mike Harris, had declared conflict of interest.
Federal Government:
My complaint to the Federal Office of Research Integrity at NSERC, indicating that it was a criminal matter and asking them to refer it to prosecution (which is stated as a part of their procedure), was, incredibly, sent back to the University that was asked to conduct self-investigation. It was conducted by the Vice-Dean alone, not by a panel as required by the procedure (Doc. 27). Then, the Committee of the Office of Research Integrity approved the self-investigation, did not give me the report of the Committee and, practically, did not even try to hide that their investigation was just a farce. I received this one-line answer: "The Committee considered that Dr. Larsen behaved in a reasonable manner given your refusal to have the 1987 article published." My recent attempt to talk to NSERC was again met with impossible lies.
Criminal case impossible. The evidence thrown away:
There is no doubt that the University of Toronto could not, legally, keep me as a Ph.D. student for five years and, having removed me, falsify the authorship of my research. This is - criminal fraud. This University is given the statutory power to grant degrees and granting a degree means recognition of academic achievement, recognition of authorship. When the University of Toronto had transferred my research under the authorship of other persons they committed both a criminal fraud and a fraud on the law in Ontario. Even in a situation when a girl goes to the police with the complaint that a modeling agency took her photographs and sold them, but did nothing to advance her career, the agency, when the facts are investigated, is charged with criminal fraud.
The University of Toronto and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada say that Professor Larsen did not steal my research, and that they made this conclusion in accordance with the existing rules, regulations, policy and procedure.
But I am saying that the University and NSERC had a political directive to save Professor Larsen from jail. I am saying that the other governmental officials, law enforcement, unions, academic organizations and the media who all refused to react to my complaints were given the political directive to avoid the matter at any price.
Social change - Untouchable criminals - Mandatory dishonesty
Here, a communist professor was a slave keeper. And she, the female scientist, was a fraud. And she, the Jewish female, brought the holocaust upon a scientist. She committed crimes unprecedented in any university.
The regime of "change" set up a network of offices and organizations to receive complaints and to screen them for political admissibility. There is no issue or a case left where politics is not put above the facts and above the law. There is no such lie that can not be made into a justification for this. The only protest that is heard in Canada is the protest orchestrated by communist organizations.
Jews, communists, "lesbians", feminists and marihuana addicts, all, unfortunately for me, had a representation in the figure of Professor Larsen, and saw their special interest in saving her. They acted as a mob. The cunning professor-criminal used political corruption in this society to stay out of jail.
It would be very naive to think that anything described above can happen in a free country where the press can report the events and make public the contents of the documents.
I have appealed to a hundred of journalists, all in vain. Almost all the press and the television stations in Canada are owned by four Jewish families. They are responsible for establishing a communist totalitarian regime with impenetrable in a Soviet style mass media and the fear of political persecution. Even a courageous protest, a few years ago, by a number of journalists who complained about impossibility to write truth about Israeli crimes in the whole chain of the main newspapers owned by Mr. Asper, did not result in any change. Some journalists were fired.
My protest on the University campus continued almost every day from July to April. The banner "Prof. Larsen - liar and thief" was seen and read from the other side of the street.
There is no doubt that the University of Toronto, the governmental officials and the law enforcement were guaranteed the complete silence of the press.
For some years, the reaction to my complaints was for me a maddening mystery. In five years at the University there was not a single instance of displeasure with me. I was also never close to politics. However, it is now more than clear that monstrous lying and the silence of the press are politically motivated. I was made virtually an outlaw for whom the law is not even supposed to work, and many times I was made to feel this. Some encounters are appearing in my memory again and again, but none of them I will ever forget.
Read in the documents on this web site (there are links on this page and on the other pages) the official justifications of the sadistic fraud that took away 23 years of my life, including the 5 years of slave labor. These justifications are no longer a mystery. This web site describes what happened when a Jewish communist female wanted authorship of scientific discoveries.
Send Robert Birgeneau your warning to stop this fraud and provocation before it's too late - write to:
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