A New Record For Scientific Retractions?

sciencehabit writes "An investigating committee in Japan has concluded that a Japanese anesthesiologist, Yoshitaka Fujii, fabricated a whopping 172 papers over the past 19 years. Among other problems, the panel, set up by the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists, could find no records of patients and no evidence medication was ever administered. 'It is as if someone sat at a desk and wrote a novel about a research idea,' the committee wrote in a 29 June summary report."

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but but but he has degrees

[alen]

he has 50 years of education, anything he writes is fact

20 years from now people will be saying the same thing about this supposed global warming. in the northeast it has actually been cooler than 30 years ago when i was a kid. almost every ridiculous theory about super hurricanes destroying NYC by 2010 have not happened.

Re:Not the First Time

[gilboad]

... Because the Americans took millions of people, shove them into 3sq km Ghettos where they'll die, in the millions from hunger and disease.
Those who were lucky enough to survive the Ghettos (and God knows how many forms of random murders) were then taken to huge camps in the middle of NY state, where they were gassed.

Do yourself a favor and read a book (or two) about the Holocaust before you compare *ANYONE* to Nazi Germany. (And no, Mein Kampf is *not* what I meant, you illiterate pi^H^H^H^H^H^H.)

- Gilboa
P.S. I'm not even American. Not even close.