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EPA-Funded Research Lab Accused Of Fabricating Data On Respiratory Illnesses
2017-07-04
[Daily Caller] Duke University admitted Sunday that it used manipulated and completely fabricated data about respiratory illnesses to obtains grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, among other agencies.

Internal investigators at the school believe that former lab technician Erin Potts-Kant falsified or fabricated data for medical research reports, attorneys for Duke said in response to a federal whistleblower lawsuit against the school. Potts-Kant told investigators that she faked data that wound up being "included in various publications and grant applications."

Former analyst Joseph Thomas alleged in a recent lawsuit that the university ignored warning signs about Potts-Kant’s work and tried to cover up the fraud, but the university denies there were warning signs. The lawsuit contends that all the work Potts-Kant did in her eight years at Duke was fabricated, and that the bogus data was done through grants worth $112.8 million to Duke and $120.9 million to other universities in North Carolina.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  Well, the EPA and Obumble wanted a certain result so they government could leverage more power away from the people and the lab delivered what the government paid for.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-07-04 08:54  

#2  ...As a wise man once said, "Follow the money."

$233,700,000 of our tax dollars would NEVER have been spent unless the labs and the assistants and the Eminent Scientists(TM) kept coming up with the big, splashy, terrifying, we're-all-gonna-die results. And by the same token, the EPA cannot keep its status, influence and most importantly, power, unless it keeps handing out money looking for problems to solve...which, coincidentally, never seem to get solved.

And g(r)omguru speaks wisdom as always - it's always the lab assistant. Which, of course, is bullshiat. The scientists in charge know full well what is going on - you cannot get results that consistent and so precisely 'in the zone' that quickly without some kind of fudging. In a perfect world, someone in DC would immediately ban Duke and Other Universities from any Federal research grants for a few years or so. That would get attention.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-07-04 06:08  

#1  Curious how it's always the lab assistant fault.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-07-04 05:44  

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