CHAPTER 1: The Beginning On this, the first day of the USA’s Festival of Looting and Destruction, we at Improbable Research received an email message from a fraudster in China. A few days ago we were warned by an another fraudster in China that the first fraudster was trying to register domain names that would […]
In this golden age of con men (call them “con artists”, if you are persnickety about your lingo), more of them are worming their way into the science world. Those science con men are devising new ways to manipulate things at ever-deeper professional levels. A team of detectives writes, in The Conversation, about some muck […]
The Bibliolore blog tells some history about the supposed significance of the musical note F: The F note, one could say, has a musing-and-fraudulent aura that makes it a good musical accompaniment to the F word. In The voice of the silence (1889), Helena Blavatsky (above) designated the pitch F as the keynote of nature. Blavatsky’s authority was Benjamin Silliman, a Professor […]
Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist? Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics That’s the headline on an article in Nautilus magazine, written by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky. Here’s part of the article: …The fact is that professional advancement for scientists around the […]
