Jed is conflating concepts. Just because a man is a competent theoretician and teacher doesn’t make him a good or even a competent experimentalist.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
