Duke Univ. Received $119M From EPA Based on Falsified Data (global warming, lawyers)
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In-house investigators at Duke University believe a former lab tech falsified or fabricated data that went into 29 medical research reports, lawyers for the university say in their answer to a federal whistleblower lawsuit against it.
Duke’s admissions concern the work of Erin Potts-Kant, and a probe it began in 2013 when she was implicated in an otherwise-unrelated embezzlement. The lawsuit, from former lab analyst Joseph Thomas, contends Duke and some of its professors used the phony data to fraudulently obtain federal research grants.
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The committee reviewed at least 36 research reports, and in many cases found that she’d tinkered with data before sending it along other investigators. In a few, she simply made things up, Duke said.
Duke, UNC, and NC State received EPA grants over $100 million to each school based on this bogus information.
These are the experts that people quote for information and policy purposes. I know they are all not dishonest, but some of them are.
Sounds like Duke admitted parts of the complaint but denied other parts. Either way it is not good and they should be punished if they did abuse taxpayer money.
The Whistleblower will receive a hefty fee if $100 million was the amount that was abused or wasted. I am not condemning that and think this was the type of activity the law was created to prevent.
I just don't like Universities being the centers of storms like this, but they should be held accountable for any abuse of funds.
Sounds like Duke admitted parts of the complaint but denied other parts. Either way it is not good and they should be punished if they did abuse taxpayer money.
The Whistleblower will receive a hefty fee if $100 million was the amount that was abused or wasted. I am not condemning that and think this was the type of activity the law was created to prevent.
I just like Universities being the centers of storms like this, but they should be held accountable for any abuse of funds.
The issue now is if Duke purposely covered it up. I can't image them openly revealing false data and still getting EPA money.
When it comes to the scam of global warming you have one bunch of Thieves and Crooks reviewing the work of another group of Thieves and Crooks.
These so-called scientists are the lowest form of of crawling animal there is. They are never to be trusted and never believed. Well, idiot you can believe them but it takes an idiot to swallow their swill.
When it comes to the scam of global warming you have one bunch of Thieves and Crooks reviewing the work of another group of Thieves and Crooks.
These so-called scientists are the lowest form of of crawling animal there is. They are never to be trusted and never believed. Well, idiot you can believe them but it takes an idiot to swallow their swill.
Seems it is not relegated to only Global Warming?
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