The plagiarism accusations against ex-doctor, not-Verteidigungsminster and designated ex-chancellor candidate to Guttenberg somehow the day: Even the most holy science says it does not seem seriously. And I do not even want to face honestly working scientists and devalue their work in general. The affair shows, however, on the one hand, as is any form of human science, but also that doctors and professors, whatever their specialty, are suspect of having manipulated data. Here there are many universities and other institutes, testing facilities, which are also used. are black sheep in every industry and I am not thinking that the percentage of manipulated scientists is higher than in other professions.
We must also raise the question as honestly as we are as a star friends, if we collect on the way to glory and fame for science data. Of course, every serious observer sees his name in publications like to imagine the results. This applies to solar observers as well as variability stargazers, meteor tracker, comet or supernova hunter seeker.
a particularly bad case, I have many years ago as manager section of the Sun of GvA Hamburg experienced. As it turned out, an observer's own data was compared with satellite images of the sun and then flow into his own observations suggest. If he does not watch because of overcast sky could, he had taken the satellite photos and printed them as his own, which he claims to have allegedly made with his telescope. Busted the whole thing, because he had achieved in the November 30 observation days in Hamburg and recorded for each day an unusually consistent good air quality at lunch time. Now, it creates even the most diligent observer is not with a lot of time in northern Germany, so many days of observation in November to get together, because the weather then always bad. The seeing conditions here are rarely more than 3 to 4 for rest and focus on the Kiepenheuer scale, the colleague had values between 1 and 2! And: The evaluation of the correction factors and correlation coefficients varied over all dimensions, times were very good, sometimes very bad.
The demand of my hand then gave the above-described facts and the fact that he is the satellite images sampled almost down, so to be converted had a small telescope and also not even really good. The response of the person concerned was, "I wanted to be because of bad weather only help" and then left the section more or less furiously for ever, because no one understood him.
The meaning of science to achieve under given (and bad) also optimal and reproducible, especially (!) Results (and possibly to abandon the relative number of destination if you have the sun might not actually observed ), the mate, then we in the club never looked back, not understood. That his action does not help, he has as little notice as the realization that his behavior was simply unscientific.
Well, you could probably philosophize about what is scientific and what is not. The professional science wrinkle your nose because you do not know how many bodies we are amateurs in the cellar: But one thing we as amateur astronomers do not!
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