Jan Hendrik Schon’s success seemed too good to be true, and it was. In only four years as a physicist at Bell Laboratories, Schon, 32, had co-authored 90 scientific papers—one every 16 days—detailing new discoveries in superconductivity, lasers, nanotechnology and quantum physics. This output astonished his colleagues, and made them suspicious. When one co-worker noticed that the same table of data appeared in two separate papers—which also happened to appear in the two most prestigious scientific journals in the world, Science and Nature—the jig was up. In October 2002, a Bell Labs investigation found that Schon had falsified and fabricated data. His career as a scientist was finished. Scientific scandals, which are as old as science itself, tend to follow similar patterns of presumption and due reward.
In recent years, of course, the pressure on scientists to publish in the top journals has increased, making the journals much more crucial t
A. surprising
B. inconceivable
C. praiseworthy
D. fraudulent
Jan Hendrik Schon’s success seemed too
good to be true, and it was. In only four years as a physicist at Bell
Laboratories, Schon, 32, had co-authored 90 scientific papers — one every 16
days, which astonished his colleagues, and made them suspicious. When one
co-worker noticed that the same table of data appeared in two separate papers —
which also happened to appear in the two most prestigious scientific journals in
the world, Science and Nature — the jig was up. In October 2002, a Bell Labs
investigation found that Schon had falsified and fabricated data. His career as
a scientist was finished. If it sounds a lot like the fall of Hwang Woo Suk — the South Korean researcher who fabricated his evidence about cloning human cells — it is. Scientific scandals, which are as old as science itself, tend to A. find novelty B. catch fraud C. test scientific validity D. detect suspicious scientific points 我来回答: 提交
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