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'."

Comments

Just goes to show...

[Anonymous Coward]

Having a degree is like having a certificate that says: I am a criminal.

fuck you pinko

[Anonymous Coward]

entea

RE:Physicist Loses Degree for Data Falsification

[Anonymous Coward]

He must be a Republican..

Re:The merits of pHDs

[Beliskner]

Employers don't want walking encyclopedias they want projects finished on time and on budget for their clients. What I am trying to say is a degree is more than a cert in knowledge it is a cert in the abilities to get the job done and done right. A professional and ethical attitude and behavior

Trash. Here's a list of people that need to be stripped of their degree or PhD that have pissed off people:

RMS (extremist),
All members of Cult of Dead Cow (H4x0R5),
Phil Zimmerman (PGP is used to encrypt kiddie pr0n)
Linus Torvads (Linux may destroy Micro$oft ad Sun, major Fortune50 stocks, collapsing the value of all 401k in the US, forcing old people into poverty)
All degree-holders that worked for VIA (for infringing IP)
Jon Johansen (for writing DeCSS)

The only people that should have degrees are boring people that tow the company line, ask no questions, you are a number, not a free man, otherwise lose your degree.