Ununoctium Wrapup

rkowen writes "Finding superheavy element 118 would have been a giant step in the quest for the conjectured island of nuclear stability. But now the claimed discovery is thought to have been part of a pattern of deception by one physicist that goes back to 1994." We've done several previous stories: the discovery, hints of trouble, possible fraud. Between this and the Schon case one might think the physics community was full of frauds.

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Shut it Michael.

[juuri]

Between this and the Schon case one might think the physics community was full of frauds.

Yes because of these TWO examples, the whole body of work from the physics community is a total and complete farce.

Michael, why don't you keep your inane banter to yourself?

Physics community full of frauds?

[aardvarkjoe]

Michael,

Rather more likely is that members of the slashdot community would think that the slashdot editorial staff is full of incompetent idiots -- if we were unable to see that the stupidity of one doesn't necessarily reflect on the intelligence of the rest.