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Salamander@mander.xyzM to Academia@mander.xyz · 1 year ago

Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results

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Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results

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Salamander@mander.xyzM to Academia@mander.xyz · 1 year ago
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The confidential 124-page report from the University of Rochester, disclosed in a lawsuit, details the extent of Ranga Dias’s scientific misconduct.
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      It’s because writing research grants, getting them approved, and publishing papers on that research has become more about getting the money and less about producing quality results.

      https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8

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        But now he will never get money again…?

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          Change name or use pseudonym, rinse and repeat.

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            Sure, because there are millions in that field and nobody will remember him? This is a niche, extremely specific science field. They all know each other at a certain level.

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              Money and grants don’t come from your peers, unless there’s a physics gofundme I don’t know about.

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                but don’t grants get reviewed by peers?

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      The harder it is to reproduce the experiment the less likely you are to be caught, and in the meantime you get paid to live your dream job as a world renowned scientist. It’s the whole “fake it til you make it” scheme ever-present in every field.

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          Not really, they get caught within a few years usually. It just takes a much shorter amount of time to get caught for a simple experiment than a more complicated one.

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