...Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards confirmed (click here) Thursday he’s filed a complaint with Michigan regulators against Wayne State University professor Shawn McElmurry, who leads a research team that was awarded a $3.1 million grant to investigate Genesee County’s 2014-2015 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak.
Edwards is accusing McElmurry of appropriating another researcher’s ideas for a proposal submitted to the National Institutes of Health and making false claims that he had worked on Flint water problems since 2010.
He “leveraged those falsifications” to obtain state grant funding, Edwards said in the March 1 complaint, alleging McElmurry’s “lack of competence and expertise” contributed to ongoing prosecution of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and state Chief Medical Executive Dr. Eden Wells....
