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有谁知道霍普金斯的事情

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c*32013-03-14 07:03

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报道：
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/doubts-about-joh
一人开除，一人自杀

h*g2013-03-14 07:03

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谢谢分享。估计学校不会处理老板。他能造假发表《自然》，
也能造假骗钱。学校花钱开心。

c*b2013-03-14 07:03

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just saw see somebody wrote this:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Washington Post reported today on a saga of academic struggles unfolding at
this time on campus at Johns Hopkins University.
Daniel Yuan, M.D., former Research Associate in the Boeke Lab.
A Chinese American scientist Dr. Daniel Yuan should have got the hint when
he was demoted by Dr. Boeke after he questioned the data published by the
Boeke Lab of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. While he
refused to keep silence, Dr. Boeke fired him. In the past few years, Yuan
had informed Nature where the Hopkins papers published as well as NIH where
the Hopkins team received millions of grants on the fishy research project.
However, both Nature and the NIH refused to respond.
The Boeke Lab at Johns Hopkins specializes in genetic, otherwise dubbed '
factory science' by Nobel Laureate Dr. Sydney Brenner. In this type of
research, large amount of data were produced by computerized equipments. A
statistician would then run different models on these data, and hopeful some
hidden information would be digged out. In plain English, the success of an
experiment is often determined by advanced tricks applied in statistical
analysis. Dr. Yuan was a statistician worked in the lab, who came to this
research field out of pure love to science. His previous career was a
pediatrician and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. When Dr.
Yuan reran some data produced by others in the group, the numbers simply do
not add up.
Johns Hopkins University obviously was not happy to hear anything negative
about its star researcher, not named in the Washington Post article, Dr. Jef
D. Boeke. Dr. Boeke is the PI of the project associated with the fraudulent
data. Another Chinese scientist in the same lab Dr. Zhang Jie who
challenged the data separately was also forced out by Dr. Boeke. While all
the clues led to Dr. Boeke, it's doubtful how long could he keep the secret
without some help from higher up.
In any typical year, Johns Hopkins University would receive $600 million
from the NIH alone. The bulk of the NIH grants are on various -omics, which
happened to be categorized by Dr. Brenner as 'high throughput, low input,
and no output' biology. If the quota was proved to have somewhat truth in it
, then the entire functioning structure of the NIH would collapse.
The coverup had been successful, until one group member Dr. Yu-yi Lin, who
allegedly forged the data, found dead on the deadline he was supposed to
answer questions to the data. Before the death made headline news, Yuan had
asked the US federal government who paid for the fraudulent research to
investigate, but Office of Research Integrity said, the incident "no longer
pose a risk" to federal research after the researcher's suicide.
One thing for sure, as long as Johns Hopkins University has been happy with
federal dollars, the government could care less. After all, it's not federal
dollars. It is tax dollars that grows from the trees.
EVen with a relative small size, Johns Hopkins University has been the top
recipient of federal research fundings for over 30 years. Year after year,
Johns Hopkins University topped much much larger schools such as Harvard
University or Stanford University in terms of gaining research grants. For
example, in FY 2010, Johns Hopkins University scooped in $2 billion, with $1
.73 of which come from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National
Institute of Health (NIH), The Department of Defense (DOD) and National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Dr. Boeke's Lab is exemplary of Johns Hopkin's success, although it may be
only the tip of the iceberg.
Wait, hold on a second, have we used the word 'suicide'? Perhaps not. Hours
after Dr. Lin's death, an email was sent from Dr. Lin's email account to Dr.
Yuan bragging about it. Dr. Yuan was laying with empty vials of sedatives
and muscle relaxants around him. As far as we know, Dr. Yuan kept a copy of
this email, but nobody seems bother/allow a criminal investigation. Anyone
say murder? With billions of dollars at stake, what would you expect?
When contacted by the Washington Post, Johns Hopkins University declined to
have any JHU employee interviewed.
We may never know.

h*g2013-03-14 07:03

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有出处吗？看来这团火是包不住了。
如果联邦政府把这个造假的实验室废掉，能省
不少钱啊。
不知道美国是不是鼓励造假。如果不鼓励造假，
可以严厉惩罚造假者。譬如说，一旦发现造假，
所有参入者十年之内不可以使用国家科研基金。

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【在 c**b 的大作中提到】

: just saw see somebody wrote this:
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: Washington Post reported today on a saga of academic struggles unfolding at
: this time on campus at Johns Hopkins University.
: Daniel Yuan, M.D., former Research Associate in the Boeke Lab.
: A Chinese American scientist Dr. Daniel Yuan should have got the hint when
: he was demoted by Dr. Boeke after he questioned the data published by the
: Boeke Lab of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. While he
: refused to keep silence, Dr. Boeke fired him. In the past few years, Yuan
: had informed Nature where the Hopkins papers published as well as NIH where