C&E News lays into Taleyarkhan

The first two paragraphs of the 28 July C & E News story stated:

A Purdue University nuclear engineering professor, Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, who reported having achieved "tabletop" nuclear fusion by sonoluminescence, later falsely published claims that the study had been independently replicated, according to an academic committee investigating his research.

The committee stressed that its investigation did not address whether Taleyarkhan doctored his original data. Whether or not this is the case is "the truly important question that remains unanswered," says University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, chemistry professor Kenneth S. Suslick, a vocal critic of Taleyarkhan's work and whose lab has attempted to replicate it without success.

C & E N also stated:

Taleyarkhan could not be reached for comment, but according to a Purdue University statement, he has 30 days to respond to the committee's findings. even though Taleyarkhan had already appealed on 22 July.

C & E News, always a day late and a dollar short...

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