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Published online 3 September 2008 | Nature 455, 13 (2008) | doi:10.1038/455013b
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Bubble-fusion researcher loses misconduct appeal
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Now false positive citation misconduct has been condemned and led to a severe penalty for a scientist with an independently unproven discovery. What about those engaged in some truly negative citation misconduct which intentionally ignoring pioneering discoveries just to make their later re-discoveries appearing novel? Would these credit-robbing (from others) citation misconduct be 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 )
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
As Oliver Manuel's New Energy Times link indicates, there is definitely more to this affair than has been made public in Nature and other Establishment sources. Its 'Bubblegate Portal' at http://newenergytimes.com/BubbleTrouble/BubblegatePortal.htm gives a detailed survey of all that has happened. Now that this has all come out, it can surely be only a matter of time before Taleyarkhan is reinstated.
A Taleyarkhan case has already been seen at least once in the past. When Nikola Tesla announced to J.P. Morgan that soon the world could have free energy (by subduing the Earth's ionosphere), Tesla lost his funding and no one would open a line of credit for him ever again (http://peswiki.com/index.php/Site:LRP:The_Deliberate_Curtailment_of_Nikola_Tesla's_Primary_Energy_Source#How_Morgan_Trapped_Tesla_and_Destroyed_Him). Soon the WWI broke out, and then the mankind got busy with "rebuilding" as well as spiritually cleansing itself (chanting: "never again, never again!") while at the same time building armies for the WWII? After that second one has ended, the world was again at it ? busy chanting "never again!" But then in 1992 came Bosnia and her wannabe-ending called the Dayton Accord of 1995 that replicated (in all important consequences for the international order) the Munich Accord of 1938. While a Russian empire today is rising thanks to the Dayton Accord and on the same money as German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman ones had, we really are watching the intro to the WWIII? Even without going into details of whether either Tesla or Taleyarkhan could actually pull it, at least the on-purpose cyclicity of world's havocs is becoming, even if for a tiny bit, more apparent by drawing the Tesla-Taleyarkhan parallel.
Bubble fusion and iPS hyping: I believe that Taleyarkhan made a mistake by over-working on a scientific belief. If he were ?lazy? and thus had not performed those confirmation studies or if he were greedy to put his name on every paper produced by his students then he might not get himself into this ironical trouble. Anyway, Science has not shown any intention to retract or even correct his 2002 publication. So what was driving him to rush on some ?unnecessary? confirmation? Let us see how those iPS guys are doing. They have claimed that they can ?efficiently? switch any ?normal? cells into pluripotent stem cells and that iPS cell can be turned into any cell you want except the tumor cells. Are these claims true? No! Does anyone care that they are true? Yes, but only a few outsiders and powerless. So the iPS bandwagon continued its march and collects all the money on the way (to a Nobel Prize?). Who cares about the critical control experiments that was proposed and even publicly posted? Yamanaka agreed that these experiments are important for confirming if the induction really happens. But he has led a National Project in Japan for over eight months but still has not performed or reported these ?important? experiments. What does this comparison tell us? It tells us that, in science, less is indeed more!/// Shi V. Liu, SVL@logibio.com, http://im1.biz and http://blog.sina.com.cn/im1