Lucent Reexamines Breakthrough Research

Posted by michael on Tuesday May 21, 2002 @05:25AM from the publish-and-perish dept.

s20451 writes "Bell Labs' claims to have manufactured transistors consisting of a single-molecule switch are being met with skepticism in the scientific community, following difficulties in reproducing the experiment. Now a panel has been formed to investigate research misconduct related to not only that claim, but others regarding organic transistors." We've run several stories about the extremely tiny transistors and the innovative ways of assembling them which Lucent has been working on. A reader's summary of a subscriber-only story on Science's website suggests that there is strong evidence that some of the data in the published papers was faked.

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it's happened before by lingqi · 2002-05-21 05:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

FYI: (i know it's about half way off-topic but...)

Mendel faked his data on genes (hmm... signifigantly altered); we don't give him flak about it...
his error margin was zero! supposedly non of his plants even, say, got eaten by a rabbit =)

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Re:From stuff like this fundamental discoveries co by Ungrounded+Lightning · 2002-05-21 06:34 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Above post was me - Ungrounded Lightning (Rod). For some reason slashdot is losing track of my login today.

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