Data in Key Papers Cannot Be Reproduced
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The Plant Journal is reporting that several important papers have been doctored at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in a case of scientific fraud in Germany. Researchers have lost faith in believing facts in papers generated at the research center, where the data of a DNA experiment were exaggerated.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1999
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After 9 years, a tangled case lurches toward a close
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A 1987 misconduct case against Parkinson's-disease authority James Abbs is still not over. The Office of Research Integrity overturned four not-guilty verdicts, and Abbs agreed not to appeal if he could rebut the charges in writing, but the ORI refused to accept his scathing attack on its integrity.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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Charges fly over advocacy research
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A petition by geologist David Seidemann of Brooklyn College at City College of New York charges the New York Public Interest Research Group with what amounts to science fraud. The college's faculty claim that the advocacy group should be subject to the same peer-review standards as scientists.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1997
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