Geoffrey.landis writes "A Purdue health center panel investigated allegations against nuclear sociology don Rusi Taleyarkhan, finding that he had in fact committed scientific misbehavior in his work. Taleyarkhan had published papers in which he reported seeing info* of nuclear fusion in the collapse of tiny bubbles in a liquid subjected to ultrasonic excitation — a finding that would be groundbreaking, if true, but one that evidently could not be replicated by other researchers. The allegations against Taleyarkhan were made in March of 2006. A local Indiana paper gives the full list of allegations against Taleyarkhan, and the resolution of each by the panel. The full report (PDF) is also available. Of the nine express allegations, only two were found to comprise scientific misconduct. The consultants 'could not find any other instances of scientists being able to replicate Taleyarkhan's results without Taleyarkhan having direct involvement with the experiments,' but notes that this comes 'just short of investigative whether Taleyarkhan's results were fraudulent.'" We've discussed this gentleman's work and the scrutiny it has conventional several times, and members of the scientific neighborhood seem to have given him the benefit of the doubt in many cases.

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