On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
A professor with that kind of background knows darn well that you do not > add random data to cover blank spaces in a graph. > > Perhaps he is the kind of professor who is better at theory than > experiment. Fleischmann was like that. Still, even someone who is dangerous > in the lab knows better than to stuff random numbers into a graph. > There's a difference between someone doing something he know's will be frowned upon and someone doing something with a proper understanding of how grave an error it is. Parkhomov does not strike me as someone who had a good grasp of the implications of filling in points in a graph, unattributed. At the present time he gives the distinct impression of being a simple fellow who is hunkered down over his workbench, doing the best he can to figure something out. The graph episode and other actions are obviously unprofessional -- that is, amateur. It does not matter that he has been a tenured professor. It does not matter that he's published in the past. What matters is where his mind is at right now. He does not seem to be too focused on even basic rules of scientific protocol. Frankly, it's difficult to see why one would be too surprised with this revelation. My own feeling is to take everything he says with a grain of salt and to see if there's anything to it. Eric
