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Can you think of any good reason Wang would refuse to provide the empirical data which would supposedly prove that he did not commit fraud?

I'm certainly not close enough to the situation to defend Wang. As regards data furnished to the committee, he may well have acted on the advice of his attorney or those of SAVA, which is involved in the related lawsuits. The full report does go into some detail regarding Wang's interactions with the committee, including references to data and materials furnished by Wang to the committee. It also includes Dr. Wang's criticism of various aspects of the committee's investigation. It's pretty obvious Wang thought he was being set up by the committee, which he thought lacked an understanding of western blot analysis. The bottom line is that a lot of the original material is not now available so the committee went with their gut feeling that Wang was guilty of egregious conduct insofar a record keeping and practices are concerned. The report draws no conclusions about alleged fraud and is, in summary, fifty pages of non-definitive information due to so much of the original source material missing.