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Engineering Ethics
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Engineering Ethics

by Gail Baura
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 20m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 10
2002: Bell Laboratories
Scientific Fraud
119
THE REPORTED STORY
The New York Times Abstract:
Investigation committee finds series of extraordinary advances in physics
claimed by scientists at Bell Labs relied on fraudulent data; findings dismiss as
fiction results from 17 papers that were promoted as major breakthrough in
physics, including claims that Bell Labs had created molecular-scale transis-
tors; committee concludes that data in disputed research, published between
1998 and 2001, was improperly manipulated, even fabricated; this confirms
suspicions raised by outside scientists in May; committee places blame for
deceit on Bell Lab scientist ...
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