Similar notebooks are kept by scientists and engineers in industry. These are often serial numbered books and the pages are all numbered. Entries are dated and may be signed when the content might be of special significance, such as establishing key aspects of an invention or discovery.
When one notebook is filled, an index of contents may be prepared to aid in finding key results later. A final entry may be made to identify the serial number of the subsequent notebook, thereby establishing an unbroken chain of scientific records.
Entries in the notebook which are later found to be in error are corrected by making new entries, explaining the prior errors, and lining through the erroneous parts. The contents are not obliterated by lining through them.
Outside of academic laboratories, such notebooks are routinely considered the property of the employer.
The solution to the problem posed in this article is to examine the notebooks kept by the scientists in question.
Dated entries will be found which discuss the design of the experiment to gauge the effectiveness of the laboratories. The methodology of submitting samples, the number and type of samples, and how they will be labelled will all be decided before the experiment begins.
Control procedures will be detailed. Results which reveal false positives and false negatives will be included.
If the people who claim that they were carrying out science cannot provide this supporting material, then they are not scientists...they are thieves who are defrauding the taxpayers of this country.
Hiding, altering, destroying document that may be used in a judicial proceeding, whether civil or criminal, is also obstructing justice. If the documents are not produced, their absence must be construed to mean that the information contained in them is damaging to the government should any citizen or company sue the government for monetary damages. Government had a DUTY to be scrupulously honest with its citizens; something courts at every level have stated throughout the history of the United States.