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Misconduct

The stars who fell to Earth

Nature volume 420, pages 728–729 (2002)Cite this article

Controversy has been the watchword in a year dogged by dispute. Misconduct revelations, clashes over transgenic crops, and confusion over stem cells have threatened to overshadow triumphs in fields from palaeoanthropology to fundamental physics. Nature's reporters recount the year's talking points.

But today, we know Jan Hendrik Schön as the perpetrator of the most outrageous fraud ever to tarnish the physical sciences, fabricating or falsifying data in at least 16 papers, many published in Nature and Science. “At the minimum,” concluded the report that sealed his fate, published in September1, “Hendrik Schön showed reckless disregard for the sanctity of data in the value system of science.”

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