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Maybe he wanted fame or fortune?

 

As for not getting caught, the downside of academia is there is such pressure for getting new results, and little work is being done verifying existing results or building them into something suitable for industry. Many papers are accepted each year that have false statements or irreproducible results.

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damn - beaten to the obscure piltdown reference!

 

indeed, hardly the first famous fraud in science - now if only the north koreans are as succesful in producing nukes!!!

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Cold Fusion was the last good Warren Miller film.

There ever was such a thing? I always thought the last good Warren Miller was before you personally got tired of his 55 year old schtick - because he's been doing the same f'ing thing since 1950.

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