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Is the Physics Nobel Prize Also Becoming a Joke?

October 16, 2009 - 12:51 am - by Frank J. Tipler
Rand M.
2012-01-10 13:53:17

I couldn’t agree more. Chu has left a long trail of talented students and associates who have left science altogether, sued him, etc. as a result of his tactics. Some have confessed (in an affidavit to a federal district court) to having been manipulated into perjuring themselves to defend him, incontrovertable evidence of obstruction of justice has been found, and any discerning look at his publications will reveal scientific misconduct (data that simply “evolves” over time, getting better with each pass).

Fortunately, enough was known from incidents ca. ’73, ca. ’81-82, and then of the YBCO discovery that the Nobel committee rightfully snubbed him.