IP: MISCONDUCT: INQUIRY AT BELL LABS IS BROADENED

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:09:00 -0400 (EDT)
To: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
Subject: What's New for Jul 12, 2002

2. MISCONDUCT: INQUIRY AT BELL LABS IS BROADENED.  The scope of
the investigation into possible data fabrication has expanded to
include four papers dealing with superconductivity.  As with the
dozen or so papers that initiated the inquiry, involving the use
of organic molecules in microelectronics, the lead author on the
novel superconductivity papers was Jan Hendrik Schon.  This is a
trip into unfamiliar territory for physicists, who have seen few
cases of outright fabrication.  However, the Council of the
American Physical Society has issued formal statements dealing
not only with fabrication and plagiarism, but with far more
prevalent forms of misconduct, such as automatic co-authorship of
someone who has made no substantive contribution to the work:
Integrity in Physics  http://www.aps.org/statements/87.1.html
Professional Conduct  http://www.aps.org/statements/91.8.html

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