Your research was such as to give false hope to Parkinsons researchers and Parkinsons sufferers, she added.
Privitera said Murdoch was suffering from severe depression and reeling from a cancer diagnosis at the time.
TheWashington Postreports:
Since 2000, the number of US academic fraud cases in science has risen dramatically.
About half of the retractions were based on researcher misconduct, not just errors, it noted.
Between 2009 and 2011, the office identified three cases with cause for action.
Between 2012 and 2015, that number jumped to 36.
Jail time is even rarer, but not unheard of.
The seriousness of this offence is just stunning.
In the meantime, three Italian researchers almost went to jail last year for unknowingly publishing false data.
The Washington Post reports that no national or international database of scientific retractions exists.
source: www.techworm.net
