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Elements 116 and 118 are Bogus?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday July 15, 2002 @07:32AM from the fraudium-hoaxium dept.

prostoalex writes "In this era of corporate misbehavior and overstatement of results who can you trust? Scientific sources, of course. Well, turns out people at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory lied about their discovery of elements 116 and 118. Associated Press has the story, quoting the lab officials charging the researchers with "scientific misconduct"."

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Re:Interesting... by spezz · 2002-07-15 08:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Actually you missed it one $ridiculously_small fraction_of_a_second ago, as that issue has an incredibly short half-life.

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