Upon results of the review, Research Triangle Institute asserted it was impossible the vials had been mislabeled as all other vials in suspect lots were properly labeled by labeling machines and it was not possible some vials had been mislabeled while others had not as the machines use printed rolls of labels. Many have asserted Ricaurte switched the labels in order to insure the continuation of funding and his results were fraudulent rather than mistaken. NIDA and AAAS are also suspected of aiding in the fraud .Oops! -- "Killer Ecstasy" Study Retracted, NIDA Credibility on the Line, RAVE Act Still Law Drug War Chronicle Issue #302, 9/12/03.
Upon results of the review, Research Triangle Institute asserted it was impossible the vials had been mislabeled as all other vials in suspect lots were properly labeled by labeling machines and it was not possible some vials had been mislabeled while others had not as the machines use printed rolls of labels. Many have asserted Ricaurte switched the labels in order to insure the continuation of funding and his results were fraudulent rather than mistaken. NIDA and AAAS are also suspected of aiding in the fraud ; Rick Doblin for his part, director and founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, pointed out after the incident that not only had the wrong drugs been used but that Ricaurte ignored all data before his study which suggested that MDMA was not particularly neurotoxic to Dopamine neurons and, as such, Doblin went as far as to suggest that all of Ricaurte's work had always been politically motivated making it impossible for any of it to be trusted or taken at face value and making it neccessary for it to be reevaluated entirely.
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.Oops! -- "Killer Ecstasy" Study Retracted, NIDA Credibility on the Line, RAVE Act Still Law Drug War Chronicle Issue #302, 9/12/03.
; Rick Doblin for his part, director and founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, pointed out after the incident that not only had the wrong drugs been used but that Ricaurte ignored all data before his study which suggested that MDMA was not particularly neurotoxic to Dopamine neurons and, as such, Doblin went as far as to suggest that all of Ricaurte's work had always been politically motivated making it impossible for any of it to be trusted or taken at face value and making it neccessary for it to be reevaluated entirely.