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Published online 29 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1069
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Bubble-fusion researcher punished for misconduct
Purdue University rejects appeal from Rusi Taleyarkhan.
Nuclear engineer Rusi Taleyarkhan has been stripped of his named professorship at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, following the results of a misconduct inquiry into his bubble-fusion research.
Having lost an appeal against the university's misconduct ruling, Taleyarkhan is banned from having graduate students for three years, and loses the title 'Arden L.
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Taleyarkhan has done a breakthrough research, and it is going to be an overwhelming in whole energetic industry. However, it seems like nobody notice his achievement and all people talk only about "falsifications of the research record"... I cannot understand why it suddenly became so important. It's like a conspiracy. =(
This incident demonstrates the vunerability of the scientist and teacher in an atmosphere of over-competitiveness in USA university pursuits of research funding. It not only begs for an independent 3rd party investigation, it brings discredit upon the leadership of Purdue University and reflects upon Purdue as a steller research school. And lastly, it casts an indictment upon the bureaucratic funding process at the government level.
False positive citation misconduct needs condemnation. Truly negative citation misconduct needs more condemnations. Those who have intentionally ignored pioneering discoveries just to make their later re-discoveries appearing novel are still doing extremely well. But these cases of credit-robbing (from others) citation misconduct are more offensive than Taleyarkhan's credit-giving (to others) citation misconduct and thus deserve more denouncement by the scientific communities? See details at http://im1.biz/Named.htm (Shi V. Liu, SVL@logibio.com, http://im1.biz and http://blog.sina.com.cn/im1 )
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There are interesting details behind the decision of the appeals committee at Purdue University to uphold findings of misconduct in the "Bubble-fusion" experiments of Professor Rusi P. Taleyarkhan: http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14621-misconduct-verdict-for-fusion-researcher-upheld.html http://newenergytimes.com/BubbleTrouble/2008MizeDarlaJ.AffadavitFeb2.pdf It has been obvious for decades that the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) seeks to discredit Cold and/or Bubble H-Fusion, still promoting the false notion that Hot H-fusion in the core of the Sun heats planet Earth. The current morass is the culmination of decades of unbridled greed and selfishness on the part of scientists and manipulation by NAS in directing the flow of federal research funds to those who provide the answers NAS wants. E.g., the 2001 claim that oscillating solar neutrinos solved the Solar Neutrino Puzzle and confirmed the Standard Solar Model of a Hydrogen-filled Sun. Regretfully, Oliver K. Manuel http://myprofile.cos.com/manuelo09