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Columbia Chemistry Professor Is Retracting 4 More Papers
NY Times ^ | June 15, 2006 | KENNETH CHANG

Posted on 06/15/2006 11:18:28 PM PDT by neverdem

Edited on 06/16/2006 1:10:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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Sounds like something weird is going on.

Ex-Columbia Student Says Disputed Chemistry Research Is Sound

Professor at Columbia Retracts Papers Over Research Questions

1 posted on 06/15/2006 11:18:32 PM PDT by neverdem
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2 posted on 06/15/2006 11:28:29 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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3 posted on 06/15/2006 11:30:17 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem
Do what I do and use the Essay Generator:

An essay on carbon-hydrogen bond activation

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Interest

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Political Factors

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Conclusion

What can we conclude? Well, carbon-hydrogen bond activation plays a large part in the lives of all. It enriches, influences the influencers,, though carbon-hydrogen bond activation brings with it obvious difficulties, it is truly carbon-hydrogen bond activation.

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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

4 posted on 06/16/2006 12:38:45 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro
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5 posted on 06/16/2006 1:04:27 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

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


6 posted on 06/16/2006 3:37:03 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: neverdem
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".

7 posted on 06/16/2006 3:59:01 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: neverdem
Hmmmm must be about $$$$$$$$$!!!
9 posted on 06/16/2006 4:12:35 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: neverdem
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.

10 posted on 06/16/2006 4:22:38 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: neverdem
Dalibor Sames

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

11 posted on 06/16/2006 5:26:00 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: neverdem

Gee: More (liberal) academic honesty.

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


12 posted on 06/16/2006 5:38:01 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

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


13 posted on 06/16/2006 5:39:35 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: ahayes
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.
14 posted on 06/16/2006 5:44:54 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

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.


15 posted on 06/16/2006 5:53:45 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: ahayes

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.


16 posted on 06/16/2006 6:19:59 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: ahayes

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


17 posted on 06/16/2006 6:20:53 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: ahayes
"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.
18 posted on 06/16/2006 7:01:31 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
"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.
19 posted on 06/16/2006 7:05:36 AM PDT by GSlob
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To: george76

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.


20 posted on 06/16/2006 8:23:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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