[NormsRevenge]

the lead author and project coordinator of the study justifying the air board's sweeping new efforts to limit diesel emissions, is being investigated by air board officials over allegations he lied about having a Ph.D. in statistics

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Busted.

ARB has been pulling numbers out of their buttholes for years.

Now we know why.

You don't need a Ph.D. to see that.

This is how the left advances its agenda .. It lies.

[B Knotts]

I knew it. I just said the other day that there has been, for years, someone at CARB with a mental illness, resulting in a fixation on eliminating diesel engines.

They need to throw out the ridiculous diesel rules, especially for NOx.

[caver]

“is being investigated by air board officials over allegations he lied about having a Ph.D. in statistics”

OK, if the fool did have a Ph.D. in statistics, what does that have to do with air pollution? Why was this clown on the CARB anyway?

[Roccus]

Phony doctorates, phony investments, phony citizenships...like a dear departed friend used to say, "It just keeps gettin' better."

[twistedwrench]

“diesel regulations were subject to a “rigorous internal review” and were vetted in a “peer review” by nationally recognized experts.”

BS,BS,BS, All these academics sat around and thought up these rules, there was
absolutely no vetting, just like the economic impact, and their nationally
recognized experts were Carol Browner and Al Gore.

Did I mention this is BS?

[twistedwrench]

Oh, and by the way, is Mr. Tran being prepared to grease the axles of
the bus when all these regulations extend the California depression.

[saganite]

LOL. You can only shake your head in wonderment. However, I guarantee the new rules won’t be changed in any way because of this. The outcome was predetermined and lack of credentials on the part of one board member won’t bring that into question.

[VOA]

Interesting.
Barry Minow (sp?) a former fraud that spent time in jail (7 years?)
has exposed some high executive officers of lying about their
academic credentials recently.

And the WSJ had an article about a European software magnate of
lying about his PhD from San Fransico Tech (doesn’t and never existed).
As well as creating fake companies and fake sales to pump up his
software company.

That was in maybe the Tuesday issue.

[patton]

Here is the thing. In a peer review process, it is like something out of ancient time - it starts with, “I studied under so-and-so...”

Then, maybe you make a call, or visit so-and-so, and ask, do you know huminafrantz? what do you think of his work?

One raised eyebrow, and everything huminafrantz ever wrote hits the round file.

No way a scientific paper by a phony PhD was peer reviewed.

ESPECIALLY not in stats. The field is too small - a couple of phone calls, and he would be outed as a fake.

So somebody is departing from the true path of rectitude.

[JCG]

Hien T. Tran, the California Air Resources Board scientist who was the lead author and project coordinator of the study justifying the air board's sweeping new efforts to limit diesel emissions, is being investigated by air board officials over allegations he lied about having a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California at Davis.

Any chance this is Ward Churchill after identity theft?

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[org.whodat]

Because of personnel privacy laws, Kay said, he wasn't sure whether he would be able to reveal the results of the investigation into Tran.

What review, you either have a published dissertation are you don't. Mr Tran needs to change his name to madeoff. LOL