Little-Acorn
Gold Member
Funniest thing about this article is where the spokesman says they don't know why the guy manipulated the data, and then almost in the same breath states flatly that it wasn't for personal gain of for any bad reason.
Why does this bring to mind, Barack Obama and his cohorts announcing that there is no evidence some mass murder was terrorism, while the bodies are still warm, the crime scene is locked down, and no one has had a chance to examine anything?
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Investigators: US lab worker in Colorado faked test results
Investigators: US lab worker in Colorado faked test results
DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press
July 1, 2016
19 hours ago
DENVER (AP) — A worker at a federal laboratory in Colorado intentionally manipulated test results for years, possibly tainting research on toxic metals in the Everglades, uranium near the Grand Canyon and coal in Afghanistan, investigators say.
The falsified data from a U.S. Geological Survey lab may have affected 24 coal, water and environmental research projects costing a total of $108 million, according to a report released recently by the Interior Department's inspector general.
The agency isn't sure why the employee falsified the results of chemical analyses, but it wasn't for personal gain or "any nefarious reason," USGS spokeswoman Anne-Berry Wade said Thursday.
A notice on the agency's website said the manipulation was done in part to correct calibration failures in the instrument being used, a mass spectrometer.
The agency took action against the employee, but Wade declined to say what it was, citing privacy rules. She also would not say whether the employee was still working for USGS or release his name.
Researchers around the world rely on USGS data, and it often shapes laws, regulations and policy. The inspector general's report said the bad data from the Colorado lab could erode confidence in the entire agency.
"We can only hope that this incident won't have a long-lasting effect on the agency's reputation," Wade said.
Why does this bring to mind, Barack Obama and his cohorts announcing that there is no evidence some mass murder was terrorism, while the bodies are still warm, the crime scene is locked down, and no one has had a chance to examine anything?
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Investigators: US lab worker in Colorado faked test results
Investigators: US lab worker in Colorado faked test results
DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press
July 1, 2016
19 hours ago
DENVER (AP) — A worker at a federal laboratory in Colorado intentionally manipulated test results for years, possibly tainting research on toxic metals in the Everglades, uranium near the Grand Canyon and coal in Afghanistan, investigators say.
The falsified data from a U.S. Geological Survey lab may have affected 24 coal, water and environmental research projects costing a total of $108 million, according to a report released recently by the Interior Department's inspector general.
The agency isn't sure why the employee falsified the results of chemical analyses, but it wasn't for personal gain or "any nefarious reason," USGS spokeswoman Anne-Berry Wade said Thursday.
A notice on the agency's website said the manipulation was done in part to correct calibration failures in the instrument being used, a mass spectrometer.
The agency took action against the employee, but Wade declined to say what it was, citing privacy rules. She also would not say whether the employee was still working for USGS or release his name.
Researchers around the world rely on USGS data, and it often shapes laws, regulations and policy. The inspector general's report said the bad data from the Colorado lab could erode confidence in the entire agency.
"We can only hope that this incident won't have a long-lasting effect on the agency's reputation," Wade said.
