On Oct 17, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Dave Wallace <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Rich Blinne wrote:
>>
>> I gave of Randy's lab exposing Schoen's fraud in nanotechnology
>> because IBM couldn't replicate Bell Lab's results which turned out
>> to be doctored. Same with Pond and Fleischmann's cold fusion fiasco.
>>
>>
> Rich
>
> Are you saying that the cold fusion report data was simply made up
> by the researchers? Complete fabrication of false numbers seems
> close to unthinkable. After all someone else is going to try to
> replicate the numbers. I rather doubt total fraud, mistakes and or
> incompetence sure or even simply too much of a rush to publish.
>
> Dave W
Thanks for the catch. I did not mean to imply fraud in the latter
case. Rather, the value of replication.
Rich Blinne
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