Oh, that's right, you don't like Indians. Racism, like sexism, is an ugly trait, Barry. I recall several of your posts condemning the entire Indian subcontinent, because of some judgments you made about Indians in the US. Was Lenz a racist also??
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > Few articles have captured the depths to which con men from > India will stoop as this one does. I noticed it because one > of my "hero" sites is RetractionWatch, an activist science > site that follows dodgy research and blows the whistle on > it and the researchers who perpetrate it when it turns out > to be bogus. > > One of their most famous "takedowns" involves the case of > Anil Potti, a cancer researcher who worked at Duke University > and who published a number of seemingly ground-shaing studies > that got him a lot of attention. As RetractionWatch and other > orgs dug beneath the surface, however, the truth began to > come out. He had faked most of his research data, and used > any number of other unscrupulous means to make claims that > simply weren't supported by any of his experiments. Major > scandal followed, in which he was forced to resign from Duke, > and during which his reputation pretty much went into the > toilet. RetractionWatch themselves published something like > 22 papers on him and his con games. > > So what does Anil Potti do? He hires himself an Indian PR > firm named Online Reputation Manager to clean up his rep, > and shortly afterwards, RetractionWatch notices that 10 of > its articles on Potti have been taken down by their ISP > provider, responding to DMCA Takedown Notices. > > What seems to have happened is that this "reputation manager" > plagiarized RetractionWatch's original articles, put them > up on a bogus site in India, and then sent off the retraction > notices, claiming that RetractionWatch's *originals* violated > their copyrights. The poor provider Wordpress, had no option > but to comply to the takedown notices, and thus the articles > exposing a total fraud and con man are no longer available. > > Welcome to science as it's practiced in the 21st century... > > http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/site-plagiarizes-blog-posts-then-files-dmca-takedown-on-originals/ >
