Bell Labs Scientist Fired for Misconduct
MURRAY HILL, N.J., Sept. 27 -- A Bells Labs scientist was fired this week after a committee determined he engaged in scientific misconduct by falsifying and fabricating experimental data between 1998 and 2001. According to an article in the The New York Times, an investigation by an independent committee formed by Bell Labs in May revealed that "A series of extraordinary advances in physics claimed by scientists at Bell Labs relied on fraudulent data. The findings, in effect, dismiss as fiction results from 17 papers that had been promoted as major breakthroughs in physics, including claims...Read full article
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Published: September 2002