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Elements 116 and 118 are Bogus?
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"."
I have this sinking feeling prior earnings may have been overstated...
Beta only seems to work for Google. Such a shame.
And in related news... Element 142 nicknamed CowboyNealium has been discovered by a crack team of wallruses in antarctica.
Here is the /. story.
Stock in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory plummeted in afternoon trading, while the head researcher vigorously denied rumors that Arthur Andersen had provided proofreading services for the paper in question...
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--Winston Churchill
Very silly to pin the blame on one individual in the research group. Don't these guys read? Don't they know disgruntled physicists, especially when they're disgraced atomic/nuclear scientists, always come back as super-villains to wreak their vengeance on their enemies and an unsuspecting world?
How long before their suspect builds himself an atomic-powered titanium alloy suit with miniature particle accelerator blasters?
So when should I expect to see the girls of Lawrence Berkley issue of Playboy?
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The compound is usually responsible for melting down servers (unless they're powered by Linux running on a Game Boy or C64!)
Whoever stated that signature sizes should be limited to one hundred and twenty characters can just go ahead and kiss my
And furthermore, the results were falsified (and then retracted) by the growing international conspiracy against fair use of used textbooks, forcing first year physics students to buy new editions every year.
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
The new names for these elements will be
"Fibbium" and "Bogusium"
Table-ized A.I.
...Arthur Anderson was supposed to audit the research, right?
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