Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Another Academic Scandal,
this time in Germany. According to [1]the Deutsche Welle site,
A German anthropology professor has resigned after a Frankfurt
university panel ruled he made up data and plagiarized works of
colleagues. Experts said knowledge about human evolution has to be
revisited as a result.
According to the commission's findings, Reiner Protsch von Zieten
lied about the age of human skulls by dating them back thousands of
years. He is also accused of trying to sell specimens that belonged
to the university and plagiarizing the work of colleagues.
"The commission finds that Prof. Protsch has forged and manipulated
scientific facts over the past 30 years," a university statement
read.
The report also said Protsch was unable to properly employ methods
to date specimens. He allegedly presented skulls that he said were
tens of thousands of years old even though they belonged to people
who died just a few hundred years ago. . . .
While Protsch, 66, did not comment on the commission's findings
after they were publicized, he already attacked the investigation
in an interview with Frankfurter Neue Presse on Jan. 14. . . .
Trust no-one, folks, not even professors. Oh, except us, of course.
Naturally.
References
1. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1493421,00.html
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