We were approached by a former graduate student about two years ago who had been trying to expose this particular experiment that was done in a small town in Ontario, where he and other graduate students had witnessed research misconduct throughout the process.
The experiment happened in Wiarton. What they were doing was trying out a new chemical in the water distribution system as an alternate disinfectant to chlorine. After about two months of testing this new chemical...the residents of the town did not know there was an alternate disinfectant being tested and they started discovering a number of irregularities with their drinking water. There were bleach stains on their laundry; the odour and taste of the water had changed; and a number of them had immediately, of their own volition, gone to boiling all their drinking water. The residents actually demanded the termination of the study and asked for a door-to-door survey to be administered. That door-to-door survey was designed by the researchers who had been funded to do the project. The results were overwhelming that the residents had discovered all sorts of problems with their drinking water, including significant odour and taste complaints, despite the fact that this was not even a question asked on the survey. This all came out in the “Comments” section.
It's important for me to flag that specific complaint because further publications--academic and otherwise--that came out of the study called it a “novel success” and explicitly stated there were no odour or taste complaints throughout the course of the study.