“An Oregon Health Sciences
University stem cell researcher has left his position after an investigation
showed he used faked data in two applications for federal funding.
“The pressures to succeed are
difficult, making it even more difficult to get funding,” said John Dahlberg,
the director of ORI’s division of investigative oversight. Fabrication of
results and data is “not uncommon,” he said, noting that the offense can be
considered and prosecuted as a felony.
According to PubMed, Francis (the
researcher) has published more than 75 articles, including articles in Public
Library of Science One, New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the
American Medical Association (1–3).”
Well… So
what? Is it something new and surprising here? Fake is a part of the game. In
order to obtain funding researches need to create a story which is worth of
funding. The current mechanistic lock-key paradigm cannot provide all the
researchers with ontologically consistent stories. What can they do if the
theory cannot produce any worthwhile practical outcome? Do not get me wrong –
to fake is bad, everybody knows that, but temptation to get funding is
overwhelming and … well, I never trust 100% to the content of modern scientific
publications (more precisely which were made after 1980s)! I am afraid we will
witness even more fake in the future… And even more spectacular!
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