Michaelangelica Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Self explanatory? I'll startMouse grows Human EarCall for ban of Genetic Engineeringhttp://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1644154.htm Galapagos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthepon Posted May 25, 2006 Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 Yeah? Look at this. Big long old bla bla. Question is: Why is it still so underground? http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/MoonLanding/MoonLanding.html Just to show I don't believe this, I'll post two sites on the counter arg side. http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/moon_hoaxes_010215.html http://www.astrocentral.co.uk/moonhoax.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted May 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2006 LOLVery funny Your three of a kind beat my full mouse Fromhttp://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s981350.htmOther Internet hoaxes have included fake CNN websites that have announced the deaths of celebrities or the auctioning on E-Bay of the "Ghost in a Jar." The unremarkable jar attracted hoax bids of up to $100 million before E-Bay pulled the plug, Boese said. "As a species, we are very good at enchanting ourselves," explained skeptic Barry Beyerstein, a psychologist from Simon Fraser University. So it's really no surprise that despite more science and education than ever before, we keep falling for hoaxes. In fact, he said "smart people are sometimes more vulnerable because they think they are immune to being fooled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nootropic Posted June 10, 2006 Report Share Posted June 10, 2006 Let we all forget about this man: http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=SEO272098 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2006 Not a bad haul "Hwang's team received 41.7 billion won ($44.57 million) in state funds from 1995 to 2005, the Board of Audit and Inspection has said, adding there were accounting holes in the records kept by Hwang and his team for the use of the money. ($1 = 935 won) (Additional reporting by Jack Kim and Lee Jin-joo)" Sadly, it is not only the Con men who get caughtsee WikapediaWilliam McBrideFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dr. William McBride, gynaecologist and obstetrictrician, is the Australian doctor who discovered the teratogenicity of thalidomide which ended the practice of prescribing it during pregnancy. Dr. McBride published a letter in The Lancet, in December 1961, noting a large number of birth defects in children of patients who were prescribed the drug. Dr. McBride was awarded a medal and prize money by the French Government in connection with his discovery, and, using the prize money he had won he established Foundation 41, a Sydney-based medical research foundation concerned with the causes of birth defects. Years later, McBride tried to speed up the results of his medical research into birth defects, and was caught falsifying results. He was deregistered as a doctor, and immediately resigned from his position as head of Foundation 41. As Dr. McBride's deregistration occurred as a result of work he did as a researcher, and not because of work he did as a medical practitioner, the decision to debar Dr. McBride from working as a medical practitioner was reversed and Dr. McBride was re-registered as a doctor in 1998. While Dr. McBride is now allowed to work as a medical practitioner, he is no longer able to work in medical research. Tthalidomide is, of course, still being sold in third world countries ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted October 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2006 A year earlier, in the same courthouse, Poehlman pleaded guilty to lying on a federal grant application and admitted to fabricating more than a decade’s worth of scientific data on obesity, menopause and aging, much of it while conducting clinical research as a tenured faculty member at the University of Vermont. He presented fraudulent data in lectures and in published papers, and he used this data to obtain millions of dollars in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health — a crime subject to as many as five years in federal prison. Poehlman’s admission of guilt came after more than five years during which he denied the charges against him, lied under oath and tried to discredit his accusers. By the time Poehlman came clean, his case had grown into one of the most expansive cases of scientific fraud in U.S. history.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/magazine/22sciencefraud.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1161588476-iv96cnx3D4T5PYFCZ5xJjA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted October 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 KOREAN SCIENTIST PAID MAFIA FOR MAMMOTH (Ancient Worlds News, 25/10/06) Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Professor Hwang Woo-suk says he spent private donations for research to pay the Russian mafia for mammoth tissues to clone extinct species.http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1773010.htm?ancient Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted November 20, 2006 Report Share Posted November 20, 2006 Then there's these two scientific frauds: Piltdown Man and Cold Fusion. According to the PBS documentary, the Piltdown Man started out as a practical joke initiated by the director of the London Museum; there may or may not have been co-conspirators. Apparently, before he could trigger his little trap and show the media up for the gullible buffoons they certainly were, World War I happened. When the gun smoke cleared, he apparently figured it would be bad for his health to expose his little joke, so he put the so-called fossil remains of mister Piltdown in a vault, where they lay untouched for nearly half a century. Unfortunately, this little prank has caused major grief to the entire paleontology and biological evolution communities ever since. Cold Fusion may have been an unintended hoax, fueled by greed and hubris. Then there are the re-occuring hoaxes of infinite power sources that scam so many uneducated Americans every year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted November 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 When the first samples of platypus were sent to England; most thought it a fraud. A duck-billed mammal, with a poisonious spur, that lays eggs!!??Pull the other one!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Here's another fraud "in and about science" -- but it leans the other way. Down in Texas, there's this dry river bed with fossils of dinosaur footprints. In places, you can see multiple tracks of multiple species. Well, some creationists claims that there were human footprints among the dinosaur footprints! Upon close examination, the human prints turned out to be the heel prints of a dinosaur -- and someone had chiseled little "toes" on each of them. The chisel marks were clear under the microscope. Well, the perpertrator admitted his fraud. But that hasn't ended the controversy. Creationist speakers STILL use that to prove their case, and still point to that "evidence" in their books. http://www.bible.ca/tracks/tracks.htm http://paleo.cc/paluxy/tsite.htm Michaelangelica and Galapagos 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwes99_03 Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Lest anyone forget about the various crop circles around the world. Particularly I remember some in England that were later discovered to have been created by college kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted April 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Merck Merck Caught in Massive Scientific Fraud as In-House Authors were Disguised as Independent Scientists (opinion) (NaturalNews) Drug giant Merck has been caught red-handed in a scheme to deceive the FDA and the public over the integrity of its scientific studies, say top medical authorities. According to reports that were (amazingly!) published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and detailed in the Washington Post, Merck waged a "campaign of deception" to disguise its in-house study authors as independent scientists working for universities. This scheme made the studies appear independent and unbiased, allowing them to carry more apparent credibility to FDA officials, doctors and other scientists. This fraud was conducted to boost the apparent scientific credibility of the studies backing Vioxx, a drug that has caused well over 100,000 heart attacks and likely killed well over 50,000 Americans, according to Senate testimony by the FDA's own senior drug safety researcher Dr. David Graham. Vioxx earned Merck $2.3 billion in 2003 alone, and was one of the most lucrative drugs ever sold by any company. But since 2004, when some of the real dangers of the drug became known, a tremendous amount of evidence leading to fraud has surfaced. It now appears quite clear that Merck deliberately lied about the dangers of the drug, misrepresented the results of scientific studies, deceived the FDA to win drug approval, knowingly covered up evidence of the drug's dangers, and now it seems Merck even conducted a deliberate campaign of deceptiveMerck Caught in Massive Scientific Fraud as In-House Authors were Disguised as Independent Scientists (opinion) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted January 31, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 This must go down as the greatest financial fraud by one individual ever.Bernard Madoff makes Columbian or Burmese Drug Barrons look like very small change.He single handily ripped off $50 US BILLION (+?)How does he rank with Mafia crime Bosses, Jesse James and the historical great swindlers? I'll squeeze him in here under "Economics" or "Psychology" or "Sociology" or "Politics". One article even suggests "Medicine" or should we start a "Criminology" thread? This article attributed to the Boston Globe (although I can't find it on their web site) has been reprinted in its entirety in just about every paper in Australia. It is the story of how one man Harry Markopolos stalked the famous investor through computer analysis of his supposed trading practices and returns for 8+ years.He continually wrote to Regulatory Authorities about his concerns and suspicions Madoff seemed to make money whether stockmarkets went up or down, a red flag to Markopolos. "You can't dominate all markets," Markopolos said. "You have to have some losses." Also, Madoff seemed unusually secretive, even to his own clients - another warning sign. Markopolos eventually decided Madoff was either running a Ponzi scheme - using money from new clients to pay off old ones - or he was "front running" stocks, improperly trading in investors' private accounts before orders the firm received from outside clients.Man who chased fraud hopes buzz will fade The interesting thing is now that Madoff has been arrested; is he in jail?No.He is under "house arrest" in his multi-million dollar palatial home.He recently complained that he could not go out to eat or visit friends(He still has friends??)The poor dear.This in a country with the Death Penalty?Astounding! Reporters & friends outside Madoff's NY apartment building He might even make a fortune writing his story!The rush to write a Madoff bookDecember 19th, 2008 Jeffrey Trachtenberg of The Wall Street Journal writes Friday about the business journalists who are already working on books about disgraced hedge fund manager Bernard Madoff. Trachtenberg writes, “Only a week after Mr. Madoff was arrested by federal agents on a charge of securities fraud, News Corp.’s HarperCollins Publishers said it has acquired world rights to a book about Mr. Madoff to be written by journalist Andrew Kirtzman. The HarperCollins book, which doesn’t yet have a title, is to be published in 2010. “News Corp. also owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal. “Separately, Bertelsmann AG’s Random House imprint said late Thursday that it, too, is acquiring the rights to a Madoff book. The so-far untitled work by investigative reporter Richard Behar is to be published in 2010. “‘This is a story that isn’t going away,’ said Claire Wachtel, an executive editor at the Harper imprint who acquired Mr. Kirtzman’s book. ‘It’s the human element that makes it so interesting.’” Read more here.Talking Biz News Wall Street JournalTalking Biz News Wall Street Journal Does Bernard Madoff have a Hormonal Imbalance?Does Bernard Madoff have a Hormonal Imbalance? - rahul k. parikh - Open Salon Other articlesBernard Madoff--The Biggest Fraud Search - Open Salon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 The lighter side of scientific fraudBy Bob GrantThe Scientist : The lighter side of scientific fraud [28th January 2009 03:46 PM GMT] ...Then what IS this rash, then? Findings of Scientific MisconductDr. Luk Van ParijsNOT-OD-09-040: Findings of Scientific Misconduct Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted March 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2009 Maybe not "Great" yet, but things are slow in the great department-you do better!FDA Takes New Regulatory Action Against Ranbaxy’s Paonta Sahib Plant in India Agency halts review of drug applications from plant due to evidence of falsified data; invokes Application Integrity Policy The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that a facility owned by India-based Ranbaxy Laboratories falsified data and test results in approved and pending drug applications. The facility, Paonta Sahib, has been under an FDA Import Alert since September 2008. Skip NavigationSkip NavigationFDA Logo links to FDA home page Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration HHS Logo links to Department of Health and Human Services website FDA Home Page | CDER Home Page | CDER Site Info | Contact CDER | What's New @ CDER CDER Home About CDER Drug Information Regulatory Guidance CDER Calendar Specific Audiences CDER Archives Search Powered by Google A List of Drugs Manufactured at the Dewas and Paonta Sahib Facilitiesof Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd. (Revised September 24, 2008) Finished Drugs Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient(s)AcyclovirAmoxicillinAmoxicillin and Clavulanate PotassiumCarbidopa and LevodopaCefaclorCefadroxilCefpodoxime ProxetilCefprozilCefuroxime AxetilCephalexinCiprofloxacin HClClarithromycinFenofibrateFluconazoleFosinopril SodiumFosinopril Sodium and HydrochlorothiazideGabapentinGanciclovir Sodium *GlimepirideIsotretinoinLoratadine (OTC)Metformin HClNefazodone HClNitrofurantoin; Nitrofurantoin and MacrocrystallineOfloxacinPravastatin SodiumRanitidineTerazosin HClValacyclovir HClZidovudine AcyclovirCiprofloxacin HClClarithromycinGabapentinGanciclovir Sodium *Pravastatin SodiumValacyclovir HCl * Products not affected by Import Alert. to top arrow Back to Top back arrow Back to Ranbaxy Information PDF document PDF requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader Date created: September 16, 2008; updated September 24, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted June 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 This is anaughty but good one!:hyper: :hyper:News:OA publisher accepts fake paperPosted by Bob Grant[Entry posted at 10th June 2009 11:13 AM GMT]View comments(24) | Comment on this news story An open access journal has agreed to publish a nonsensical article written by a computer program, claiming that the manuscript was peer reviewed and requesting that the "authors" pay $800 in "open access fees." Philip Davis, a PhD student in scientific communications at Cornell University, and Kent Anderson, executive director of international business and product development at the New England Journal of Medicine, submitted the fake manuscript to The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ) at the end of January. Davis generated the paper, which was titled "Deconstructing Access Points," using a computer program -- called SCIgen -- created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and Anderson signed the work using pseudonyms (David Phillips and Andrew Kent). The two listed the "Center for Research in Applied Phrenology" (CRAP) as their home institution on the paper, which featured fictitious tables, figures and referencesOA publisher accepts fake paper :The Scientist [10th June 2009] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michaelangelica Posted July 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Life After FraudYou put your name into Google, and the first entry is about a transgression from 20 years ago, the penalty for which only lasted three years. Now you can't get a job. Each year, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) investigates dozens of charges of scientific misconduct. And each year, the ORI adds a handful of names to a list of researchers found guilty of falsifying figures, fabricating data, or committing other academic infractions. As of April 1, 2009, this Administrative Actions list, presented on the ORI Web site, carried 38 names. These people are barred from receiving federal funds and/or serving on a Public Health Service committee, typically for a period of 3–5 years. Once the debarment term is up, the name disappears from the list. In theory, the punishment—and the shame—of the ordeal is over. Life After Fraud :The Scientist [2009-07-01] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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