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Physicist Loses Degree for Data Falsification
cheese_wallet writes "Jan Hendrik Schoen was stripped of his doctoral degree by his university for fabricating data in his research. From the article: 'Schoen, now 34, was fired by Bell Laboratories in New Jersey in September 2002 after an outside review committee concluded that he made up or altered data 16 times while working in the hot fields of superconductivity and molecular electronics'."
LOL, if I could I would so mod that funny :)
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I have had very numbers of beers
Why did you drink beer?
Surely the University REALIZED that this former PhD is a DANGEROUS MAN, and will surely SELL HIS SERVICES to TERRORISTS, NAZIS and the KKK. A physicist, especially with knowledge of NUCULAAR PHIZZIKS, could thinks of DIRTY BOMBES and other diverse devices.
;-) for the humor-impaired. ]
Since no one else will employ him, his only recourse is to work for organized crime! Why won't someone think of the children!
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That sort of thing happens far more than you may know. Multiple fields operate on the assumptions that the existence and operations of the cosmos and of man must be explainable on purely naturalistic terms, and that no other potential explanation of these things will be tolerated - never mind given a moment's serious consideration.
The consequence of this is that in those fields the results are always tailored to fit the assumptions. There's no reason to suppose it doesn't happen in other fields, either. It's a truism, perhaps, but it's still true: sometimes one only sees what one is looking for.
DFL
Never send a human to do a machine's job.
Read my earlier posts in this thread. Overview: Scientists a priori discard non-naturalistic explanations of phenonemena, which is intellectually dishonest.
DFL
Never send a human to do a machine's job.