RE: Berkeley lab found research fabricated

["Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>]

Ruth Weiner wrote:



> 2.  Was this deliberate "fabrication" or a false positive result enhanced by preliminary hype?



The 2001 retraction submitted to Physical Review Letters is at an Oregon State Univeristy web page http://www.orst.edu/dept/nchem/menu/prog01.htm#2a



According to a more detailed explanation following the retraction statement, one of the co-authors, Walter Loveland, notes that Victor Ninov was "the person responsible for the primary data analysis" for both experiments.  



The web site provides details of the stages of analyses that were performed.  At the time, Loveland also states, "Continuing investigations focus on whether a 'buggy' computer program, human error or scientific fraud is responsible for these results."



The recent news reports indicate that LBL officials have concluded it was the latter.



Rick Strickert

Austin, TX



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