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Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/1/2024 8:52:35 PM

This time, a medical school neuroscientist is on the hot seat for research misconduct at Harvard. Claudine Gay could at least argue that her academic misconduct wasn’t exactly brain surgery, but now that two of the academic scandals are at Harvard Medical School and one includes a neuroscientist, you get the idea. It is brain surgery in this case, and it’s pretty hard for Harvard to deny that there is a fundamental problem regarding academic integrity at its institution now that four separate scandals have popped up in the period of a few months. Top Harvard Medical School neuroscientist Khalid Shah allegedly falsified data and plagiarized images across 21 papers,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: MrDeplorable 2/1/2024 9:03:47 PM (No. 1649103)
Like fish, academic institutions rot from the head down.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rumblehog 2/1/2024 9:04:14 PM (No. 1649105)
Amish again!?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Lawsy0 2/1/2024 9:07:55 PM (No. 1649110)
How nice! Dr. Khalid Shah, the Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Neurosurgery at BWH and a Professor at Harvard Medical School. He directs The Center for Stem and Translational immunotherapy and also a joint Center of Excellence in Biomedicine. He is also the Principal Faculty at Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston. He seems every bit has honest and straight forward as our esteemed Anthony Fauci! Have they discovered the root cause for all this cheating yet?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 2/1/2024 9:22:49 PM (No. 1649123)
I checked with Capt. Renault....and he is SHOCKED, just like I am.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Scribelus 2/1/2024 9:31:04 PM (No. 1649124)
Could it, could it be, that so much of what China has been stealing is .. KaKa?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: JimBob 2/1/2024 11:00:50 PM (No. 1649164)
My mind goes back to the late 1970's, studying mechanical engineering at George Washington University, Washington DC. This was when the Shah of Iran was being overthrown. There were a lot of middle eastern students in the engineering program... I could not tell who was from which country, Iran, Saudi, etc. My estimation was that about 10% of them were the nicest people you could ever want to meet. The rest of them were not worth the powder needed to blow them to Hades. Quite a few of them put so much effort into cheating on the exams that, had they put that effort into studying, they would have 'Aced' the tests on the merits. When I read the article title, I formed a suspicion in my mind. As soon as I saw the name of the plagiarist, my suspicions were confirmed. I believe it is just the culture in that part of the world. Unfortunately, when people from there come over here, they bring that culture with them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Trigger2 2/2/2024 12:39:06 AM (No. 1649183)
Haaarvard should be closed permanently. Period.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 2/2/2024 2:28:56 AM (No. 1649207)
Harvard should change its name to Cheatah. They evidently instruct their students in the arts of dishonesty.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 2/2/2024 4:58:10 AM (No. 1649218)
In a related story, Harvard has announced a new academic degree: A BS in Plagiarism.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Wetenschapper 2/2/2024 5:38:34 AM (No. 1649231)
Though now retired, I spent thirty years in academic research, and have seen first-hand how data is manipulated and trimmed to give 'significant' results, Two fMRI publications from our department were based on data that was known to have been generated by a calculation error. This sort of thing is not at all unusual, and shoddy research is endemic in academia, mostly because of the way it's funded. More publications means more grants, which enriches the institution. A 2011 study examining 67 drug research findings found that three-fourths were misreported. In another study, only 11 percent of preclinical cancer research findings could be reproduced. Two much-vaunted physics papers, the discovery of cosmic inflation and gravitational waves, and superluminal neutrinos were later retracted. As the article that reported these findings states, "science is broken". Much of the reason it's broken is because it's become little more than another arm of the bloated, incompetent federal government.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: WhamDBambam 2/2/2024 7:06:16 AM (No. 1649256)
Smugness will get you there every time.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 2/2/2024 7:19:13 AM (No. 1649263)
With a name like Khalid he's definitely innocent. Nothing to see here folks.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: skacmar 2/2/2024 7:50:40 AM (No. 1649288)
Harvard's facade of academic and moral superiority is quickly being torn away. Their carefully constructed image as the "premier academic and research " institution is just a self perpetuated, media driven hype led by influential alumni and a big endowment. Take that away and all you have is a very expensive community college full of entitled people.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: paral04 2/2/2024 8:55:00 AM (No. 1649319)
Those guys who founded Harvard as a Divinity School must be rolling around their graves now. This is a small sample of what "Wokeness" is doing to our country and values. The part of the world that hates us, some of which are living in our country, will take advantage of this moral decay and destroy us just as the Romans and other great cultures were. Just a matter of time.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 2/2/2024 10:25:17 AM (No. 1649354)
We can see why "trust the science" didn't work during covid. We can't trust scientists anymore!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DVC 2/2/2024 12:16:57 PM (No. 1649475)
Re #6, now you have some insight into why the Islamic world has invented NOTHING since they came up with the zero thousands of years ago. A culture of "always cheat" doesn't advance. And as seemingly unimportant as "inventing zero" seems, it is a critical concept, and the whole development of numbering system in which each column in a number represents an increasing exponent of the base number, made future advancements in mathematics possible. Roman numerals were, while useful, and workable for basic accounting, is a pure dead end mathematically, prevented Roman scientists from easily calculating many things. Mayan numbers and Egyptian number systems were similarly dead end messes. Chinese numbering was a bit better, but still hindered progress. Only the exponential hierarchical ranked number systems, which have a zero as a place holder, as needed, can open the doors to simple multiplication and division manipulation with pencil and paper, which is the path to more mathematical and engineering advancement. Rome was crippled by their numerical system - which I'm sure they saw as very useful, even indespensable and couldn't grasp that it locked them out of much of mathematical progress.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: zoidberg 2/2/2024 2:10:19 PM (No. 1649526)
Another incident that makes it hard to trust The Science™.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Hazymac 2/2/2024 2:13:11 PM (No. 1649529)
Re #4: When it Raines, it pours.
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