Comments on: Criminal Prosecution for Scientific Fraud http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/criminal_prosec.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:19:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: e.a.greenhalgh http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/criminal_prosec.html/comment-page-1#comment-60735 e.a.greenhalgh Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:29:06 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/criminal-prosecution-for-scientific-fraud.html#comment-60735 Yes charge scientists and university administrators who commit fraud with felony and send them to jail. There is a definite difference between an honest mistake and a deliberate premediatated fraud. And researchers who commit fraud are not children with their hands in the cookie jar,they are mean spirited adults who are out for private gain even if it means depriving people of cures and treatments. Delay in research can mean death .All for money and prestige. See my website, www.cancerfraudbadbiotech.com and see that cancer research was blocked to cover up academic scholarship fraud at Yale for U of Waterloo (RIM, the Blackberry). I know, I survived cancer because of those suppressed theories. In this modern world, research is critical, and fraud can not only lose money but lives, and given the fraud may be a vaccine, we are talking thousands of lives. Not cookies in a cookie jar. So if a scientist is imporatant enough to receive federal money , he/she is important enough to tell the truth, good or bad. And if they lie, the research is so important that they face serious consequences. If not, don't apply for serious funding. Get it? So to help undo the corruption and ensure society is safe, help expose corruption and hold those accountable for their deliberate premediatated acts of selfishness and meaness. Thank you. E.A.Greenhalgh Yes charge scientists and university administrators who commit fraud with felony and send them to jail. There is a definite difference between an honest mistake and a deliberate premediatated fraud. And researchers who commit fraud are not children with their hands in the cookie jar,they are mean spirited adults who are out for private gain even if it means depriving people of cures and treatments. Delay in research can mean death .All for money and prestige. See my website, http://www.cancerfraudbadbiotech.com and see that cancer research was blocked to cover up academic scholarship fraud at Yale for U of Waterloo (RIM, the Blackberry). I know, I survived cancer because of those suppressed theories. In this modern world, research is critical, and fraud can not only lose money but lives, and given the fraud may be a vaccine, we are talking thousands of lives. Not cookies in a cookie jar. So if a scientist is imporatant enough to receive federal money , he/she is important enough to tell the truth, good or bad. And if they lie, the research is so important that they face serious consequences. If not, don’t apply for serious funding. Get it? So to help undo the corruption and ensure society is safe, help expose corruption and hold those accountable for their deliberate premediatated acts of selfishness and meaness. Thank you. E.A.Greenhalgh

]]> By: Gerhard Falk http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/criminal_prosec.html/comment-page-1#comment-60734 Gerhard Falk Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:18:46 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/criminal-prosecution-for-scientific-fraud.html#comment-60734 Although scientific fraud is offensive and destructive, the penalty is the stigma which the scientific community imposes on fraudulent scientists. We certainly cannot trust prosecutors who are far more malicious and fraudulent than any scientists. Prosecutors, seeking to be re-elected constantly imprison innocent people and even send the innocent to their deaths. The time has come to rid outselves of prosecutors who evidently care only about their power and their money and don't give a damn about justice. Although scientific fraud is offensive and destructive, the penalty is the stigma which the scientific community imposes on fraudulent scientists. We certainly cannot trust prosecutors who are far more malicious and fraudulent than any scientists. Prosecutors, seeking to be re-elected constantly imprison innocent people and even send the innocent to their deaths. The time has come to rid outselves of prosecutors who evidently care only about their power and their money and don’t give a damn about justice.

]]> By: Dave http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/criminal_prosec.html/comment-page-1#comment-60733 Dave Sun, 07 May 2006 15:45:59 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/criminal-prosecution-for-scientific-fraud.html#comment-60733 Those who control the power structure count on arguements like this to maintain their power. To paraphrase what Churchill had once said, "all it takes is for evil to win is for good scientists to sit idlely by". The fact that scientific fraud and misconduct is "complex" is no argument for not pursuing resolution via the court systems. Some murders can be quite complex in nature, but that doesn't mean we simply fail to prosecute them. As more and more instances of scientific fraud come to light, and more and more lawyers get trained in the various "modus operandi", our expertise in prosecuting these cases will expand. Those who control the power structure count on arguements like this to maintain their power. To paraphrase what Churchill had once said, “all it takes is for evil to win is for good scientists to sit idlely by”.

The fact that scientific fraud and misconduct is “complex” is no argument for not pursuing resolution via the court systems. Some murders can be quite complex in nature, but that doesn’t mean we simply fail to prosecute them.

As more and more instances of scientific fraud come to light, and more and more lawyers get trained in the various “modus operandi”, our expertise in prosecuting these cases will expand.

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