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Did you keep working there?

• lisper 7y ago
  Yes, but the institution at which I discovered the fabrication was not the same as the one at which I was enrolled as a grad student.
  • Chris2048 7y ago
    Can you report it now?
    • lisper 7y ago
      It's ancient history. This happened in the 90's. Also, one of the reasons I decided not to report it then was that I could not actually prove anything. I could have easily tampered with the equipment myself, and I expected that if I made a stink out of it that is exactly what the perpetrator would accuse me of doing. I couldn't think of any way I could defend myself in that case, which is one of the reasons I decided not to pursue it. I did confront the perpetrator privately and his response was that the results I was seeing was from a different version of the software than the one that produced the reported results. This seemed implausible to me for reasons that are too complicated to recount here, but again, no way to prove it. On the plus side, that line of research was quietly abandoned and so I may have had the intended effect. The results are still on the record, but no one really cares any more.