This Professor Jones character...probably needs to pull out his university credentials and check to see if ethics were tied to them. If so...he might want to consider a six-month vacation and recover some of his values...and dock his pay while he’s on this recovery period.
This is the part about science that I can’t understand. You have to show some ethical behavior in your research. The minute that you agree it’s not required....you basically aren’t dealing with science anymore...it’s science fiction. Then you need to sign up for Star Trek or some commune in Colorado.
I would say that everything Professor Jones has now written over the past decade or more...is suspect. I would expect the university to have a independent team to pull out the publications and start asking stupid questions. If things can’t be verified....then remove them as “facts”. It’s that simple. And if the university isn’t capable of that...then they need to remove themselves from science entirely...and start selling their degrees as science fiction.
Jones is going to Prison.