Scientific frauds and falsifications

Let's honor the top 10 popular scientific deceptions

10th place: In mid-January 2006 it became known that the Norwegian oncologist Jon Sudbo invented nearly a thousand bogus medical records to back them their conclusions about the possibility of treating cancer anti-inflammatory drugs, which he tried to advance in the pharmaceutical market.

9th place: Around the same troubles began Stefan Willich, Director of the Berlin Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics. Willich was accused that he deliberately manipulated the data of clinical observations, seeking to show that the loud noise dramatically increases the probability of acute cardiac disorders.

8th place: Fully recognized untenable theory of American nuclear engineer Ruzi Taleyyarhana, who claimed to have seen the thermonuclear reactions that occur under the influence of acoustic shock waves.

7th place: Sell doing even recognized geniuses. There is evidence that misleading facts were published even such giants as Isaac Newton.

6th place: Mendel - the founder of the doctrine of heredity, falsify the results of their experiments. Rather, he simply stopped the experiment when it achieves the desired result.

5 spot: Often the scientists were given the wrong opening of their own. It is proved that the famous Louis Pasteur invented the vaccine French bacteriologist Charles Chamberland, who then worked in the laboratory at the Pasteur. Pasteur, though, and I used his method, did not mention the name of Chamberlin in public.

4th place: A record number of renowned scientific fraud and counterfeiting related to the research in paleontology and archeology. One of the most striking examples of this - the story of George Psalmanazar. In 1704 he arrived in England, where he talked to everyone (including the serious scientist) that was captured by the natives of the island of Formosa (now Taiwan). As it turned out soon, Psalmanazar simply invented language, culture, religion, and customs of the inhabitants of the calendar of Formosa.

3rd place: A few years ago, near Hamburg had found the remains of a man who lived about 36 thousand. Years ago. It became a scientific sensation because these remains could be "transitional link" between Neanderthals and modern humans. The author of the discovery was Professor Rainer von Protsh go. However, examination has shown, a professor to go, who found the remains, cheated, he artificially aged skeleton, whose age is in fact no more than 7, 6 thousand years.

2nd place: Professor of Veterinary Science Seoul National University Hwang Woo-suk was accused of deliberate fabrication of the results of experiments on the cloning of human embryonic stem cells. Hwang admitted that he gave the order to one of the assistants to modify several lines of normal somatic cells, so that they could pass off as cloned stem cells.

1st place: fabricated evidence and the famous Sigmund Freud. There is evidence that his theory is based on observations in only one patient!