On Friday, 7 September 2018 13:30:11 AEST JLWhitaker wrote: > ABC RN Science Friction had a big story about science fraud today. Worth a > listen. Mostly it was about the Chinese Science situation where publishing is > required, so an industry of false results and false peer reviews has grown up > to support it.
Yes, that was very interesting, and the Chinese Government is apparently well onto it, thank goodness. The ABC ran another item in less serious vein recently on James Valentine's afternoon show. It seems a very bright young lady hacked into her School's computer system. While she was there she sent a letter to the parents of 20 of her friends saying the School was very pleased with their work and academic progress and wished to reward them by allowing the group a day at the beach, and would the parents consider giving them some pocket money for their day out. This enterprise was only rumbled when one mother rushed up to the School on the day saying that her daughter had forgotten her swimmers. The School banned the perpertrator for one month but apparently told her they would employ her to go through the system and make sure something similar couldn't happen again on her return, since the people they employed to do this were pretty useless! DavidL. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
