The cesspool that is widening in the universe that is academia just took a turn for the worse...
...now, don't misunderstand me - I am not against ALL of academia...just the bad apples...and there are plenty of them it appears...
the latest? A former medical school professor was accused Thursday of fabricating research data on closely watched topics such as menopause, aging and hormone supplements to win millions of dollars in grant money from the federal government.
Prosecutors said Eric T. Poehlman, 49, a former tenured professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, would fabricate his research to make his proposals look more intriguing, in the hope that the government would be more likely to dole out grants to him....diverting millions of dollars from Public Health Service to support his research projects....he actually falsified and fabricated test results...Poehlman lied about the number of subjects he had tested...and changed the data about their physical characteristics and test results to create trends that did not occur in the research...
During the two-year investigation, Poehlman deleted electronic evidence of his falsifications, presented false testimony and documents and influenced other witnesses to provide false documents, the U.S. attorney's office said....Poehlman resigned from the medical school in 2001 and moved to Montreal, Canada to work as a researcher....
The thing that struck me most was that this creep was living high off the hog...falsifying data in order to maintain his lifestyle...and how many people were adversely impacted with his lies?
This is bad...very, very bad...for academia...for you...for me...makes me wonder how many others are out there waiting to be 'discovered'?
DR
