{"id":4069,"date":"2013-04-29T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:42","slug":"analytical-chemistry-and-the-con-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2013\/04\/analytical-chemistry-and-the-con-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytical chemistry and &#8216;The Con Man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One wouldn&#8217;t think that a story about scientific fraud would arouse a lot of passion among the reading public unless it had something to do with climate change or water fluoridation, but a NY Times story from this past weekend&#8217;s magazine (<a title=\"NY Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/28\/magazine\/diederik-stapels-audacious-academic-fraud.html?ref=science&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Mind of a Con Man, April 28, 2013<\/strong><\/a>) generated over 360 comments in just a few hours. Some had a lot to say, but <a title=\"Chemistry News, 2009\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/07\/allison-stelling-04-in-jacs-07\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dr. Allison Stelling &#8217;04<\/strong><\/a>, had offered <a title=\"NY Times\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/acomm?a=1053112&amp;pg=4\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this short assessment<\/strong><\/a> of fraud, the virtues of analytical chemistry, and something that she remembered her A-chem prof, <strong>Ron McClard<\/strong>, saying:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;My undergraduate thesis adviser at <strong>Reed College<\/strong>, Prof. McClard, once said during his always amusing analytical chemistry lecture: &#8220;When you become wedded to your hypothesis rather than to your data, that&#8217;s a little bit scary.&#8221; Sometimes I think social and life sciences would benefit if a solid analytical chemistry course were a requirement for the majors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One wouldn&#8217;t think that a story about scientific fraud would arouse a lot of passion among the reading public unless it had something to do with climate change or water fluoridation, but a NY Times story from this past weekend&#8217;s&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2013\/04\/analytical-chemistry-and-the-con-man\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Analytical chemistry and &#8216;The Con Man&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}