[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.

[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.