I agree with Jed that this should never have been done. It damages the credibility of Parkhomov and his entire experiment. When I first read about the data adjustment I assumed it was not true since there was no mention of it from Parkhomov prior to its discovery.
This is a serious matter and should never be repeated by anyone else in our industry. Never, ever generate false data! If this is a common occurance, how are we to trust the data from any experiment? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, May 27, 2015 10:40 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Parkhomov doctored his data Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: you are exaggerating, this is absolutely insignifiant- . . . I disagree. As I said, it is highly unprofessional. I have never heard of a professional scientist doing anything like this except at MIT when they deliberately added data points to cover up the excess heat in 1989. That was a serious violation of scientific ethics. This may not be a serious violation, because it seems pointless. But it is an outlandish thing to do. It is inexplicable. A graphic joke having no relation to the results. Never, ever, would I call this a joke. It is not even slightly funny. It is more like a sign of mental illness. It is not nice to say ugly words re persons onthe frontline of LENR, do not forget we are kibitzes only. Not nice?!? What is that supposed to mean in this context? It is "not nice" to publish fake data. It is an academic "sin" as Parkhomov himself said. It hurts his credibility. Heck, it practically destroys his credibility. I can't imagine why you defend this sort of thing. If I had published this data on LENR-CANR.org, I would remove it immediately, and I would post a message saying the author publicly admitted the data was fraudulent. Even though it does not seem to affect the conclusion, the act of inserting fake data is in itself unacceptable. Besides, how can we believe the missing data showed what he claimed? If he nonchalantly inserts fake data, why should we trust the fake data more-or-less traces what actually happened? - Jed
