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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."
How many of you hve known about falsification of notes and done nothing about it...
'Hey, I've got a wife and n kids to feed...
Poor guy. Obviously he forgot to credit the Flying Spaghetti Monster for his research findings.
Troll me if you want but it's been published.
Yeah, you should worry about being modded troll, because Slashdot is so well-known for its pro Bush attitudes.
With our present administration if you were falsifying data to prove creationism you might just get a medal.
Well, that's sort of what tipped them off. A recently-appointed federal oversight committee reviewed the bibliography he submitted of primary sources for his research, and found that he had many works cited besides the King James Bible. Knowing that the Bible is the only authentic scientific work published to date, they knew right away that the guy was committing fraud of some sort. It only took a little digging to come up with the details.
That's a really good point! (IANAL also.)
I'm not anal either, but you should always take slashdot summaries with a grain of salt.
...how many turns is this going to set me back? I don't have the resources to allocate my Military funding to Research, since I'm upgrading my units!
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
How else are all those {student|personal|classified|confidental} records supposed to get out in the wild to be used for identity theft? If there's no laptop full of that info to be stolen, you're depriving some nice, dishonest, person of making a living.
So let's stop being so defensive about attacks on science and start demanding that the fundies prove their own questionable assertions. Along the lines of the Ansari X-Prize, I propose the Slashdot B-Prize, to encourage the proof of the various assertions in the Bible.
First goal: Build a seaworthy ark of the dimensions cited in Genesis, populate it with two (or seven!) of every species currently on the planet (because the diversity of species can't be proven by evolution over less than six thousand years), crew it with as many people cited in Genesis, keep it afloat and the animals alive for several weeks (this involves disposing of tons of elephant, cow, and horse poop) with only that crew, and continue to feed the animals for several weeks after landing with the stored feed (since edible plant species would have been washed away in the flood). $10 million bucks for the chance to shut us fancy-pants scientists up with a real experiment. Who's with me on this?