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More Troubles For Authors of Controversial Acid-Bath Stem Cell Articles

Posted by Unknown on from the all-the-great-ideas-are-lies dept.

bmahersciwriter writes "Reports early this year about a strikingly simple method for deriving pluripotent stem cells were met with amazement and deep skepticism, then claims that the experiments were not reproducible, then accusations of copied and manipulated figures. Now, the first author of one of the papers is being lambasted for having copied the first 20 pages of her doctoral thesis from an NIH primer on stem cells. And an adviser on her thesis committee says he was never asked to review it. Could this get any stranger? Probably!"

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  1. Science, I think not by multimediavt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When there is obvious chicanery involved and the experiments aren't reproducible, that is not science. Why does this story of science fiction get a science tag? It's not science if it's fake, folks. That's called fraud.

    1. Re:Science, I think not by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 5, Interesting

      When there is obvious chicanery involved and the experiments aren't reproducible, that is not science. Why does this story of science fiction get a science tag? It's not science if it's fake, folks. That's called fraud.

      Because the fraud - if it was - was done in the name of science.

      As a person of science, I am both angered by the apparent fraud, and very pleased that other scientists are going after the perps.

      This is the system working, and it is working well.

      Cold fusion, Piltdown man, recent anti-AGW work by shill organizations, and this. All frauds, all exposed.

      In a science based system, with worldwide research, the truth will out itself.

      --
      The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
  2. Re:Motive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It could also be the pressure to publish. Lots of scientists have 'performance' goals tied directly to their number of recently published articles.