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... for faking reports.
Article at Ars Technica
Dr. Yoshitaka Fujii from Toho University's medical school has submitted over 200 papers on the field of anesthesia.
Research into his results (one of which was so out of line with reality that it only had a 1 in 10^33 chance of being real) has revealed that out of 212 papers, only 3 have been found to have been based on actual data, while at least 172 have been found to have been clearly fabricated.
To lend credence to his work, he forged the names of collaborators and sought funding from a variety of sources, making tracking down his fraud more difficult. Unfortunately for him, he didn't know enough about his own field to produce consistently convincing results.
This brings up interesting questions regarding scientific testing and ethics and how it's possible to either verify or expose reports before they become accepted and used as a basis for further study.
^-.-^
Article at Ars Technica
Dr. Yoshitaka Fujii from Toho University's medical school has submitted over 200 papers on the field of anesthesia.
Research into his results (one of which was so out of line with reality that it only had a 1 in 10^33 chance of being real) has revealed that out of 212 papers, only 3 have been found to have been based on actual data, while at least 172 have been found to have been clearly fabricated.
To lend credence to his work, he forged the names of collaborators and sought funding from a variety of sources, making tracking down his fraud more difficult. Unfortunately for him, he didn't know enough about his own field to produce consistently convincing results.
This brings up interesting questions regarding scientific testing and ethics and how it's possible to either verify or expose reports before they become accepted and used as a basis for further study.
^-.-^
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