TRURO - Disappointed, frustrated and disillusioned.
But far from down and out.
Such is the state of Alex Martynenko after his attempts to be reinstated as an assistant professor at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC) were dashed by the province’s deputy minister of Agriculture.
“I did not expect it,” Martynenko said, of the written decision he recently received from Paul LaFleche.
Martynenko, 51, was fired at the end of May from the college over allegations that he falsified data in two publications relating to the drying of ginseng and apples.
While acknowledging that he made an error by adding a chart in the submission of one discussion paper that came from another, Martynenko strongly disagrees that he actually did anything wrong and that he did not plagiarize other published work as he was accused of doing.
“My conscience is clear with this,” he said Tuesday.
