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University Suspects Fraud by a Researcher Who Studied Red Wine

Jan 16, 2012 07:06

By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: January 11, 2012

A charge of widespread scientific fraud, involving 26 articles published in 11 journals, was leveled by the University of Connecticut today against Dipak K. Das, one of its researchers, whose work reported health benefits in red wine.The charges, if verified, seem unlikely to affect the field of ( Read more... )

academia, oh no they didn't!, research/development, science gone bad!, fraud, fail

Comments 5

buttersbooboo January 16 2012, 12:53:53 UTC

Wow... I bet this happens more often than we think. Nothing excuses it but there is too much pressure to publish.

miraje January 16 2012, 13:52:49 UTC

WTF at the Google Scholar comment? I thought the NY Times had better journalists than that.

clevermanka January 16 2012, 13:59:14 UTC

And people wonder why I pay no attention to research that suggests what may or may not be good or healthy for me.

diamond_dust06 January 16 2012, 20:08:51 UTC

I would be happy to repeat the wine research for verification purposes.

cheez_ball January 17 2012, 16:18:13 UTC

The university more than suspects fraud. They've outright said he committed it. They've already sent out official letters and such to all the journals in which he's published. This is a very big deal and is taken very seriously.

As far as this happening "all the time". I'd say an oops with misinterpretation of data happens all the time, and is usually corrected in subsequent papers. Over a hundred instances of fraudulently creating data does not. UConn has a lot of evidence against him.

As far as the research findings go, LALALALALALA!!!! I'm not listening! Yea, yea, I know. But I still WANT to believe red wine is good for me.