http://www.australiannationalreview.com/cancer-research-fraud-claims-nobel-prize-winner/
On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe there is a great deal of corruption in academic science. Several > cold fusion researchers, biologists and others have told me about incidents > such as harassment, publishing fraudulent data, stealing data during > peer-review, and so on. Academic science has a public reputation of being > ethical and directed only toward "learning the truth." I believe it is more > political than the public realizes. > > The *New York Times* today published an article about an important > scientist who has been accused of unethical behavior: > > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/science/cancer-carlo-croce.html > > Years of Ethics Charges, but Star Cancer Researcher Gets a Pass > > Quoting the lede: > > > "Dr. Carlo Croce is among the most prolific scientists in an emerging area > of cancer research involving what is sometimes called the “dark matter” of > the human genome. A department chairman at Ohio State University and a > member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Croce has parlayed his > decades-long pursuit of cancer remedies into a research empire: He has > received more than $86 million in federal grants as a principal > investigator and, by his own count, more than 60 awards. > > With that flamboyant success has come a quotient of controversy. Some > scientists argue that Dr. Croce has overstated his expansive claims for the > therapeutic promise of his work, and that his laboratory is focused more on > churning out papers than on carefully assessing its experimental data. > > But a far less public scientific drama has been playing out in the > Biomedical Research Tower that houses Dr. Croce’s sprawling laboratory on > Ohio State’s campus in Columbus. > > Over the last several years, Dr. Croce has been fending off a tide of > allegations of data falsification and other scientific misconduct, > according to federal and state records, whistle-blower complaints and > correspondence with scientific journals obtained by The New York Times. . . > ." > > > - Jed > >
