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Also don't forget the rolling eyes along with Just consider if the TMO... ________________________________ From: merudanda <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 12:39 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fascinating article that reveals much about Indian con men OMG loosing face forgot my smiley face should be : "Papers are retracted because of software errors (hopeful not done by Turquoisb)"...... of course --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merudanda wrote: > > The problem seems to be more that although the number of scientific > journals and articles published is increasing each year, the rate of > papers being retracted as invalid is increasing even faster and > researchers like to portray their retractions as being the result of > errors. > Papers are retracted because of software errors (hopeful not done by > Turquoisb)and past studies (such as this one > http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2010/12/23/jme.2010.040923 > ) > seems to verify this. > But new studies find that this isn't the case. Many retractions (over 15 > percent by one measure) claim to be because of errors, but ultimately > turn out to be because of fraud. You may easily discovered this by > checking these reports prepared by the Office of Research Integrity, > which polices research fraud. > http://www.ori.dhhs.gov/ > Research fraud exploded over the last decade and retractions don't > always mention when data are fraudulent (43% of the time, in fact). > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ wrote: > > > > Oh, that's right, you don't like Indians. Racism, like sexism, is an > ugly trait, Barry. I recall several of your posts condemning the entire > Indian subcontinent, because of some judgments you made about Indians in > the US. Was Lenz a racist also?? > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > Few articles have captured the depths to which con men from > > > India will stoop as this one does. I noticed it because one > > > of my "hero" sites is RetractionWatch, an activist science > > > site that follows dodgy research and blows the whistle on > > > it and the researchers who perpetrate it when it turns out > > > to be bogus. > > > > > > One of their most famous "takedowns" involves the case of > > > Anil Potti, a cancer researcher who worked at Duke University > > > and who published a number of seemingly ground-shaing studies > > > that got him a lot of attention. As RetractionWatch and other > > > orgs dug beneath the surface, however, the truth began to > > > come out. He had faked most of his research data, and used > > > any number of other unscrupulous means to make claims that > > > simply weren't supported by any of his experiments. Major > > > scandal followed, in which he was forced to resign from Duke, > > > and during which his reputation pretty much went into the > > > toilet. RetractionWatch themselves published something like > > > 22 papers on him and his con games. > > > > > > So what does Anil Potti do? He hires himself an Indian PR > > > firm named Online Reputation Manager to clean up his rep, > > > and shortly afterwards, RetractionWatch notices that 10 of > > > its articles on Potti have been taken down by their ISP > > > provider, responding to DMCA Takedown Notices. > > > > > > What seems to have happened is that this "reputation manager" > > > plagiarized RetractionWatch's original articles, put them > > > up on a bogus site in India, and then sent off the retraction > > > notices, claiming that RetractionWatch's *originals* violated > > > their copyrights. The poor provider Wordpress, had no option > > > but to comply to the takedown notices, and thus the articles > > > exposing a total fraud and con man are no longer available. > > > > > > Welcome to science as it's practiced in the 21st century... > > > > > > > http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/site-plagiarizes-blog-posts-then-\ > files-dmca-takedown-on-originals/ > > > > > >
