Researcher Jailed for Falsifying Research

Caldeso writes "For the first time in U.S. history, a researcher has received jail time for falsifying research data to obtain federal grants. Eric Poehlman pled guilty to defrauding the government to the tune of nearly 3 million dollars by changing and making up research and was sentenced to a year in a federal prison work camp and a lifetime ban on further federal grants."

Comments

Re:Now for the real issue

[azav]

Or GWB and Crew for the same to con us into entering Iraq and relying on same for months after it's been disproven and made public?

Troll me if you want but it's been published. Also, there is large amount of exposure to "plausible deniability".

Sigh.

Re:Fair pay...

[lumber_13]

with a note saying "Go wild Chuck!"

you meant to say "Go wild fuck!" didn't you?

Re:AHEM, GLOBAL WARMING ANYONE!!!

[f1r3br4nd]

You idiot, nearly every single climate researcher believes that global warming is accelerating at a rate unprecedented in the history of our species. Are you saying that every single one of them is lying? To me the simpler explanation is that politicians and pundits who don't know crap about science and their shills have made up their minds to dismiss global warming as "liberal propoganda" because it might be expensive and all that pleasant to prepare for the now inevitable consequences of global warming.

lie to the public, go to jail, except when ..

[TheGratefulNet]

so....

(obvious question comes) how come bush and co, who HORRIBLY lied to the american public about real life/death things (the war, wmd, etc) gets to continue to live scott-free?

his ass should be in jail for the heinous crime of causing an illegal and unnecessary war and lying to the american public. and when CAUGHT in the lie, and is fully exposed, STILL nothing happens to him!

its hard to justify jailing a researcher for 'just lying' about some research he did when much worse crimes are going on and left totally unpunished.