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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology brain sciences department and, separately, a group of some 200 neuroscientists from around the world have written letters to The New York Times claiming that a book excerpt in the newspaper's Sunday magazine this week contains important errors, misinterpretations of scientific disputes, and unfair characterizations of an MIT neuroscientist who did groundbreaking research on human memory. In particular, the excerpt contains a 36-volley verbatim exchange between author Luke Dittrich and MIT's Suzanne Corkin in which she says that key documents from historic experiments were "shredded." "Most of it has gone, is in the trash, was shredded," Corkin is quoted as telling Dittrich before she died in May, explaining, "there's no place to preserve it." Destroying files related to historic scientific research would raise eyebrows, but Corkin's colleagues say it never happened. "We believe that no records were destroyed and, to the contrary, that professor Corkin worked in her final days to organize and preserve all records," said the letter that Dr. James DiCarlo, head of the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, sent to the Times late Tuesday.