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July 18, 2008
Purdue U. Reverses Course and Declares a Scientist Guilty of Misconduct
Purdue University announced today that one of its nuclear engineers was guilty of scientific misconduct in work related to his potentially revolutionary findings about creating fusion from bubbles.
The announcement represented an about-face for the university, which more than a year ago declared that the scientist, Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, was not guilty of misconduct. The university had come under fire from members of the U.S. House of Representatives for that earlier assertion, and subsequently started a new investigation.
The university has posted the results of its investigation in a report dated April 18. The U.S. Office of Naval Research, which financed the work of Mr. Taleyarkhan, praised the new Purdue investigation, calling it, among other things, “prompt.”
Mr. Taleyarkhan has 30 days to appeal the findings. —Richard Monastersky
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Prof. Taleyarkhan should not “appeal the findings”: he should demand the right/opportunity to create “fusion from bubbles” in front of an audience of peers, reporters, and interested US Reps.
— richard Jul 19, 01:45 PM #
Don’t you see, richard, that you are offering a 19-th century scientific solution to the 21-st century bureaucratic problem? This is not what the university is looking for.
— Michael Pyshnov Jul 21, 09:25 AM #
Cold fusion, Bubble fusion. Stop spending precious money on fusion! You want unlimited energy? Steal it from the dead.
— Targa L'Auburgois Jul 22, 04:57 PM #