[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RE: Berkeley lab found research fabricated
I think the classic example of preliminary hype was cold fusion. A common
statement I heard was that extraordinary claims must be backed with
extraordinary proof.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM [mailto:RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:53 AM
To: Floyd.Flanigan@FERNALD.GOV; Jack_Earley@RL.GOV; faseiler@NMIA.COM;
elb@BECHTELJACOBS.ORG
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; jalvarez@nxs.net; jalvarez@auxier.com;
Gjnewton1937@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: Berkeley lab found research fabricated
. . .
2. Was this deliberate "fabrication" or a false positive result enhanced by
preliminary hype? I recall the (perhaps somewhat apocryphal) story of the
physician specializing in transplants who painted the fur of some of his
mice with black magic marker in order to show a genetic transplant. Now
that was (or would have been) fabrication. The descriptions I have read on
RADSAFE of the Berkeley claim sound more like premature enthusiasm about a
very questionable result that was later shown to be spurious. Spurious
results happen. Excessive enthusiasm about a spurious result is
embarrassing to the institution, not to speak of the investigator, but it
isn't really fabrication. But perhaps I don't know the whole story.
************************************************************************
You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,
send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the text "unsubscribe
radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.
You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/