July 18, 2008
A lusty Tomahawk chop to Taleyarkhan et al. who claimed to have shown nuclear fusion in a tabletop sonoluminescence experiment in 2002. Purdue finds some counts of academic misconduct and though it does not specifically implicate the 2002 Science publication it sure doesn't look that great in the overall scheme of things. I seem to remember some of Frommhold's students thinking this was pretty much impossible at the time of publication.
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I just wish they didn't call him 'fusion scientist' in the headline. It gives the rest of us a bad name. We haven't had that kind of negative publicity since Doc Ocks in Spiderman 2.
posted by pino at 03:19PM CST on July 19