Europe tackles huge fraud : Nature News - 5 views
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LeopoldS on 16 Jun 11they used names of scientists and research centres without these actually knowing about their involvement it seems.... I am wondering what they actually reported back in terms of results? randomly generated papers? Christos?
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Luzi Bergamin on 16 Jun 11surprised? of course not! schadenfreude? yes, a lot!
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Christos Ampatzis on 18 Jun 11Probably some bored project officer "accepted" the deliverables as reasonable? What worries me is the last paragraph by the Committee on Industry and Research (Space is in there..., all RTD is there...) Are we going to simplify procedures or tighten more??? Because there is a lot of talk about simplification in FP8: which is not well received by Parliament/Council and co...
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Luzi Bergamin on 18 Jun 11Hopefully I'm wrong, but I'm very pessimistic. I guess they will impose even more control, ask for even more detailed description of the results that will be delivered and concentrate even more on project funding instead of funding open research.
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pacome delva on 20 Jun 11maybe this is what happen when there is so much paper involved... a simple phone call to one of the research scientist and the fraud is unveiled :) or maybe the "bored project officer" has a brand new mercedes...