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This is despite the furore over his role in the fraud cases involving brain researcher Milena Penkowa","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":false,"user":false,"contributor_name":"Luci Ellis","contributor_title":" ","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>University of Copenhagen rector Ralf Hemmingsen has no plans to resign from his post. This was made clear in a dramatic, heated televised interview on Danish TV station, DR1 Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI do not employ myself, but I have no plans to stop clearing up in this case, or to resign,\u00ab he stated in Monday\u2019s \u2018TV Avisen\u2019(Television News, ed.).<\/p>\n<p>His statement came in response to a direct question posed by the programme’s host, as to whether Hemmingsen would step down if Penkowa is convicted. <\/p>\n<p>Other sources interviewed in the news item called for Hemmingsen\u2019s resignation, if the accusations against Penkowa are proven to be true. <\/p>\n<h2>Failure of judgement<\/h2>\n<p>Both Niels H\u00f8iby, professor at the University of Copenhagen, Jens Zimmer Rasmussen, professor at the University of Southern Danmark og S\u00f8ren Moestrup, professor at Aarhus University, made it clear that they expect the rector to step down if Milena Penkowa is convicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf the things that have emerged are true, the rectors judgement may be called into question, and in that case, I do not feel that he can remain in his position,\u00ab said Niels H\u00f8jby during the programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf management has shown a failure of judgement in this kind of a case, then it may also have it in a number of other areas, and this will just not do,\u00ab H\u00f8jby said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr.dk\/odp\/player.aspx?uniqueid=388015&mt=newstab&st=news_TVAvisen&furl=http%3A\/\/www.dr.dk\/odp\/default.aspx%3Ftemplate%3Dnyhed%26guid%3DDR1201102142100%26autoplay%3D0%26back%3Ddefault.aspx%253ftemplate%253dnyheder%2526day%253d0\" target=\"_blank\">See the news programme here (in Danish). <\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Based on false evidence<\/h2>\n<p>Ralf Hemmingsen defended his role in the case:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbYou can always use hindsight, and if I had been able to guess that the papers were false, the case would have been rather different, but it is clear that we judged the case based on false documents,\u00ab he said, referring to the allegedly fraudulent documents provided to the university by Milena Penkowa, in support of her research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/media-brain-scientist-faked-lab-reports-lied\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the alleged falsified lab reports here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>luci@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":48,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1036,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11492,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37669,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062\/revisions\/37669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}