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Lucent Reexamines Breakthrough Research

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Re:These PhDs were probably Linux users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    This is what selling your soul to a corporate entity leads to.

    Free science exists only in the academia.

  2. Foreign scam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    What else can you expect from foreign researchers?

    It is outrageous that our nation favours foreign citizens over the potential US researchers. This is a healthy reminder that the ethics outside our borders often leaves a lot to hope for.

  3. Tolda ya so by PhysicsGenius · · Score: -1, Troll
    Due to Slashdots brain-dead comment history I can't find the link, but I've said many times that nano-research is a pseudo-science akin to ESP and fusion research.

    Why can't the alternative science community be more like the cheap-but-effective alternative medicine community. Simple tests prove time and time again that things like ginkgo-balboa are effective in treating heart disease.

  4. Re:Gods in the cmmiteee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    was that english ? Purdue huh, what capacity, facilities ?