Friday, February 06, 2004
BBC - Horizon - The Dark Secret of Hendrik Sch� Good story of scientific fraud and nanotechnology - despite being begun and ended by grey goo scaremongeing and a lot of unfounded waffle about Moore's Law. Transcript of a HORIZON programme:
"...after four months the investigation revealed the truth. The investigation established that Schön had behaved recklessly and that he had deliberately fabricated some data. When the committee cross-examined his colleagues they found that no one had actually witnessed any of his most significant results. When they asked to see the raw data that allowed him to come to his remarkable conclusion they discovered that he had deleted virtually all of it, apparently because his computer lacked sufficient memory. Suddenly the reason why he had seemed so far in advance of anyone else began to make sense."
"... here was this person that was the golden boy of condensed matter physics and it appeared that a large fraction of what he’d done looked fraudulent. ... The news hit Nature like a thunderbolt."
"...after four months the investigation revealed the truth. The investigation established that Schön had behaved recklessly and that he had deliberately fabricated some data. When the committee cross-examined his colleagues they found that no one had actually witnessed any of his most significant results. When they asked to see the raw data that allowed him to come to his remarkable conclusion they discovered that he had deleted virtually all of it, apparently because his computer lacked sufficient memory. Suddenly the reason why he had seemed so far in advance of anyone else began to make sense."
"... here was this person that was the golden boy of condensed matter physics and it appeared that a large fraction of what he’d done looked fraudulent. ... The news hit Nature like a thunderbolt."
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