"Hitt blamed the error on his research team"
Nope.
You're the "expert". You can blame no one but yourself.
If your research team didn't do its job, you're supposed to be the one to control and double-check and make them do it right.
You're just a lazy slob who went before a judge without doing the job properly, but accepted the money to do so.
You will forever be associated with failure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
