Thursday, October 06, 2011

Integrity issue follows fired [chronic fatigue syndrome] researcher : Nature News
...some samples labelled as 'normal' in the Science paper were given patient numbers in the presentation, and the patient sample numbers differed between the two figures.

Commenters on the blog also pointed out that the cropped figure used in the presentation can be expanded to show more of the gel, including the original handwritten labelling. The labels on that original image differed from how the slide was described in the paper and the presentation.

Such discrepancies are difficult to cast as unintentional errors, says Jonathan Stoye, head of virology at the MRC National Institute for Medical Research in London. "There is no consistency in the way these things are labelled," he says.
How Did Steve Jobs Do It without Obama? - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online
How did Steve Jobs create so many outstanding products without Barack Obama’s investment?

In barely three decades, Jobs helped create a tech revolution — from product to infrastructure — without a dollar of federal help.While snake-oil salesmen Obama claims to know the future and blow taxpayer dollars on it, Jobs and his peers hatched ideas that attracted billions of dollars of private capital. The result is a digital infrastructure that spans the globe totally independent of government subsidy.
Notes on the Brune talk on Mann-Climategate in Boulder | Watts Up With That?
I left the room with the impression that nobody had asked the “elephant” question. Had the money that Mann brought to Penn State from Federal sources caused him to bend his research to fit the requirements of his Federal funders? To ask such a question on the grounds of a Federal research facility might have been a bit too brash.

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