A Voss and Pike Casefile: The First Case
Section 43: The Confrontation
Pryor didn't try to leave. He sat very still, and when he finally spoke, it was to the room rather than to you.
"I adjusted his dose," he said, "to buy time. Not to kill him - to delay him, a week, perhaps two, long enough for Candour's contract renewal to clear committee before his conscience became everybody's problem. I am, apparently, considerably worse at pharmacology than statistics." His voice, for the first time all evening, lost its careful edges. "He confronted me about the model that same night, in his office, with my own memo in his hand. I told him the science was sound. He told me I'd stopped being able to tell the difference between sound science and convenient science, and that frightened me more than I expected it to, because some part of me already suspected he was right."