Columbia Chemistry Professor Is Retracting 4 More Papers

NY Times ^ | June 15, 2006 | KENNETH CHANG

[neverdem]

A chemistry professor at Columbia University who in March retracted two papers and part of a third published in a leading journal is now retracting four additional scientific papers.

The retractions came after the experimental findings of the papers could not be reproduced by other researchers in the same laboratory.

[neverdem]

Sounds like something weird is going on.

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[grey_whiskers]

Like, ping, guys...

[neverdem]

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[martin_fierro]

Do what I do and use the Essay Generator:

An essay on carbon-hydrogen bond activation

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Social Factors

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Interest
		carbon-hydrogen bond activation

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Conclusion

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[1] Tygers of Pang Tang - The Cage - 1982 MCR Records

[2] Bootlegger - Take It! - 1961 Viva Books

[3] Weekly carbon-hydrogen bond activation - Issue 54 - Rhino Media

[neverdem]

LOL! http://www.cerbslair.com/ltcc/crash_course.html

[ahayes]

Dr. Sezen better stay far away from Columbia or Dr. Sames may wring her neck.

[raybbr]

For example, scientists might one day be able to change simple hydrocarbon molecules like methane into more complex ones like those in plastic and pharmaceuticals.

"Take two modified farts and call me in the morning".

[SycoDon]

Phd - Piled High and Dry

[Just mythoughts]

Hmmmm must be about $$$$$$$$$!!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

The retractions came after the experimental findings of the papers could not be reproduced by other researchers in the same laboratory.

The indicated procedure. Seems like the guy in charge of the lab instigated this when other students couldn't duplicate the missind Sezen's work. When I was in grad school, we used to get the duplications before publishing. Not every laboratory happening is an experiment.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Dalibor Sames

Just curious as to the ethnic background of Dr. Sames.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Gee: More (liberal) academic honesty.

Wonder if this guy signed Gore's global warming thesis too.

[ahayes]

Why do you say "liberal"? I wasn't aware there was anything political about C-H bond activation.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

He (the person making false statements about chemistry) is a person who's individual moral and ethical decisions stem from HIS decisions of what's right and wrong, what's moral and immoral.

With 90-96% of college professors voting for Clinton-Gore-Kerry, I'm making a logical deduction of his character, and thus his honesty.

[ahayes]

I think you're leaping to conclusions. What I'm getting is that his graduate student lied to him and falsified her data, leading to the publishing of these papers. When she left he discovered her work could not be reproduced, which led him to display his honesty by voluntarily detracting those articles at great cost to himself.

I doubt the grad student's decision had anything to do with politics, but more to do with wanting to get her Ph.D. and not making sufficient progress.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Suspect you are right. I also suspect that he might use more oversight on his future grad students' work in the future, especially before publishing.

[ahayes]

detracting = retracting, although retracting necessarily requires detracting. . .

[GSlob]

"Dr. Sezen better stay far away from Columbia or Dr. Sames may wring her neck."
Well, it is a career-ender if there has ever been one. Sames, if not already tenured, is in a deep pile, too.

[GSlob]

"Just curious as to the ethnic background of Dr. Sames."
The name "Dalibor" is associated with a prison tower of Hradcany castle in Prague - "Daliborka". A squire by that name was the first prisoner there, IIRC, and made his way even into an opera.

[Grampa Dave]

Looks like more Faux Professors are still out there.

I can't wait until we finally have good peer review of all the Global Warming BS and most of the endanger Critter bs.

[george76]

Thanks for the ping.

The Faux Professors are everywhere.

They could not exist in the real world, so they hide and protect each other behind tenure.

[Grampa Dave]

When this stuff gets exposed via the internet and other conservative sites, it is like a big ox getting a splinter with some bad bacteria on the little splinter.

Eventually enough of these infecting little splinters will be the end of the big ox.

[expatpat]

It seems that Sames is the GOOD guy -- Sezen is the bad girl.

[Erasmus]

That's one think I like about FR.

< };^)

[george76]

When the students of the Faux Professors get out into the real world, the students will be in for a big surprise.

First, some of the students will eventually realize that the world is not flat ( as the profs told them ).

Second, The socialistic world of the old media, NEA, UAW, AFL-CIO...is dying.

They will be in for another surprise when the social security and medicare FDR ponzi schemes hit the wall in twenty years ...there will be alot of screaming.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

I can agree with that.

[neverdem]

Just curious as to the ethnic background of Dr. Sames.

Me too, let me make a wild @ss guess(WAG). He's a Czeck or Slovak. This is where Google is really useful, i.e. unique, ethnic names.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/sames/aboutdali.html

[Grampa Dave]

Two decades ago, our oldest son coined the phrase, "Instant Unemployment Degrees!"

The reality of these worthless degrees had hit home and bottomed out re the job market.

Graduates from good schools with valid degrees found good jobs. Those with instant unemployment had to go back for Masters and Phds in these worthless degrees.

Many are now full time Professors peddling the sos that they were peddled. Journalism degrees is another worthless one like any of the so called enviral degrees.

[DoctorMichael]

Considering that the Creationzoid/IDiacs never produce any data at all, they can sleep well tonight that they will never have any retractions of their bilge.

[js1138]

A happening without the rave.

[xJones]

There's all kinds of blogging rumors swirling and whirling out there, such as in tenderbutton.com.

Facts seem to be that Prof. Sames was soon to be tenured and now that's been put on hold. Also, that Bengu Sezen claims she wasn't told about any retractions in advance, and that those who failed to duplicate her experiments didn't do them right.

If you get to reading in those chemistry blogs, you sure run into some rivalries and jealousies.