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Wednesday, September 25, 2002

A not-so-pretty story of fraud

Back in May, I mentioned that Bell Labs was investigating charges of potential scientific fraud by one of their most prominent researchers. They did; the report came out yesterday, and it said that the researcher, Hendrik Sch�n, had committed scientific misconduct on well over a dozen occasions. They fired him. His co-authors were largely cleared. The researcher's boss (who was also a co-author, which is why I say "largely" cleared) was slapped on the wrist for not probing strongly enough when the results were initially presented, although once concerns were raised by others he acted appropriately.

It's a sad day for Bell Labs.

Posted at 4:37 PM

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