Let me fix that headline for you: Researcher Commits Fraud Against Pesticide Industry
[An assistant professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey] fabricated stereological cell count data in two studies on how pesticides influence neuronal mechanisms involved in Parkinson’s disease (PD). The studies reported the results of 13 new experiments that supposedly counted nigrostriatal neurons in the brains of mice and rats, but an investigation spearheaded by the UMDNJ determined those counts were never taken. The nigrostriatal pathway is a major dopamine circuit in the brain, and loss of neurons in this area is one of the main features of Parkinson’s disease.The papers slated for retraction investigate the neurological response to the combined pesticides paraquat and maneb, and suggest the pesticide atrazine also has a role in disrupting dopamine pathways. The false data were used to create several summary bar graphs, which Thiruchelvam modified to support the hypothesis that proteasomal dysfunction is higher in males than females with PD, and that exposure to paraquat and maneb enhances this effect.
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Deborah Cory-Slechta, a co-author on the same paper, said in an email she was “both shocked and disappointed” by the news. Both papers have had influence in the field, with the Journal of Biological Chemistry study being cited 73 times according to ISI.
So Mona Thiruchelvam faked scientific research.
Just means she is fully qualified to be a Climate Scientist. She would fit right in with the rest of the scammers and schemers.
U Penn should hire her, she would fit right in.
Maybe they should fumigate the contaminated lab results...
So the paper's author now adheres to 'Scientism'; in that the results ensure access to grant money.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Right said Fred! I thought there was no up-side to the scammers and frauds in the cAGW religion,but maybe they are causing people to look at other "scientists/researches".
Oh yeah. Sounds like that mass murderer who got DDT banned.To bad it's gone.
I read somewhere in the blogosphere that data falsification in Univ. scientific research is FAR MORE common than is commonly known. And I can believe it. One night in the early 60s I visited a fraternity brother doing his MS in Chem Engineering late one night in the Lab. While there wandering around I witnessed a fellow grad student inserting some liquids in a mass spectrometer. Later I was told by my fraternity brother, "You don't know what a rare sight you saw, NOBODY has ever watched any of this guy's experiments--he's very secretive." Years later it was found that a whole series of his lab results for his MS AND PhD (and which had served as the basis for some very important opinions and policy decisions in govt) were a total fraud and entirely made-up out of whole cloth..
The Dark Ages through science.
Thanks scientists!
What Fred and Justthinkin said.
richfisher, exactly!
Is anything in science credible anymore and not tainted by politics or an agenda?
WHO is singing from the same slave page as the AGW and Agenda21 people. The quit smoking drugs like Champex shut down the reactors in a persons brain that produce dopamine; for this reason many people on these drugs commit suicide.
Agenda 21 claims there are too many people....
Y'all fergot that evil "environmental smoke" (second hand smoke). Accordin' to "research" that'll peal the chrome of a chevy bumper 200 yards upwind.....
Hang her.
"Fred", I think you mean PSU. The major universities in Pennsylvania are "Penn and Pitt and PSU".
PSU, unfortunately, houses Michael Mann and was the base for Jerry Sandusky.
Both flourished under the same president. "Unfortunately"
because I have some connection with the Physics Dept at
PSU. I have never met either of those bastards.
Welcome to the post-modern era of science.
The chemical companies should set up a class action and sue the university for damages.
"Welcome to the post-modern era of science."
Welcome to the modern era of "post-science"
Fixed?
1 in 12 kids suffers from I.E.D.
Must be REAL science ... it came Haaavaaad...........
Yet most leftists blindly refuse to do anything but be guided by science and our intellectual betters. They don't want to worry their pretty little heads with things like common sense or um... REALITY.
What scares me most is this blind adherence to the secular religion, which has killed more folks, fleeced (stolen) more money, raped and pillaged all in the name of NOT being a religion but a science.
And those a$$ hats who absolve themselves of any personal responsibility by following the science get to vote and take away OUR FREEDOMS.
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