#science fraud

[caparrucia]

Fucking obsessed with the superconductor fraud documentary I've had playing all morning while I do work.

If you're a nerd like me, it's going to be right up your alley!

[floogaloop]

“Prometheus, Pandora, or Piltdown Man?” Is the hardest quote I have ever heard in my life and it came from an audience member at a conference the focus of which was two guys pretending they achieved cold fusion.

Prometheus, does this discovery entail an enlightenment for all mankind?

Pandora, will it result in far-reaching, unintended consequences?

Piltdown Man (an anthropological hoax), is it a complete fraud from the start?

So obviously, the answer was not “No comment”, it was actually Piltdown Man.

[touch-starved-lurker]

bobby broccoli on yt is so cool

science fraud is so crazy interesting i love it

[geekballin]

I knew it was bad, but this shows how systemic science fraud is. This is beyond problematic…this is endemic. More papers will be retracted. More scientists will be discredited. This is long overdue. The 2020’s is proving to be a decade of crumbling infrastructure’s that were founded on deception and exploitation.

Aside from the melodramatics (although, is it?)….this video is worth watching.

[hezigler]

The Perfect Crime - Scientific Fraud in America

[exploring-sars-cov-2]

This parody graph is inspired by the parody graph authored by Norman Fenton.

[airbrickwall]

[thaumbody]

Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives

Last month, drug company Genentech reported on the first clinical trials of the drug crenezumab, a drug targeting amyloid proteins that form