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Nature 459, 645-646 (4 June 2009) | doi:10.1038/459645a; Published online 3 June 2009
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See associated Correspondence: Reich, Nature 460, 949 (August 2009)
Martin Blume1
Abstract
A journalistic account of the case of data manipulation by physicist Jan Hendrik Schön is rich in detail but draws the wrong conclusions about the self-correcting processes of science, argues Martin Blume.
BOOK REVIEWED-Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
by Eugenie Samuel Reich
Palgrave Macmillan: 2009. 272 pp. £15.99, $26.95
Jan Hendrik Schön first came to New Jersey's Bell Laboratories from his doctoral work at the University of Konstanz, Germany, as an intern in 1997. A year later he became a postdoc and staff member.
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