 |
The Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), guided by its Science Editor
Martin Urban, was waging a long and emotional war against fraudulent scientists, a group that according to the SZ
included more or less all scientists. |
|
 |
Interestingly, the weekly magazine of the SZ did not only contain many fraudulent interviews
with various celebrities (freely invented, as it turned out later), but a number of long articles concerning science that were completely fraudulent.
|
|
Here is one of those article from the weekly Magazine No. 45 from Nov.
1994 of the "Süddeutsche" addressing "cold fusion"
that demonstrates nicely how to falsify things. |
|
|
First you turn things around. It wasn't Fleischmann and Pond, the two scientists
who claimed to have discovered cold fusion, who cheated - oh no! All the other other physicist in the world behaved unethically
by not acknowledging the wonderful achievements of Fleischmann and Pond. |
|
|
By the way, Fleischmann and Pond originally did not cheat - they were convinced
that they had something. In this they were wrong, but being wrong is not the same as cheating. They only started cheating
when they must have realized that their experiments did not really support the conclusion they originally drew but then
did not admit that - because meanwhile they have been made media heroes by articles like the following: |
| | |
|
© H. Föll (Matwis Seminar)
4.1.2 Ethics of Scientific Writing 
With frame