Paleonet: Micropaleontological fraud: the last (?) chapter

Bruno Granier granierbruno at orange.fr
Tue May 19 17:32:25 UTC 2009


Dear Paleoneters,
You are welcome to have a look to "The IMAM case. Additional 
investigation of a micropaleontological fraud" that we (myself, Monique 
FEIST, Edward HENNESSEY, Ioan BUCUR & Baba SENOWBARI-DARYAN) published 
in the latest issue of "Carnets de Géologie" at 
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/uk-index.html#NEW

Abstract: Starting in 1996 and for almost a decade, M.M. Imam 
contributed to twelve papers published in international geological 
journals. These papers dealt with the micropaleontology and 
biostratigraphy of Cretaceous to Miocene series from Egypt and Libya. 
They were abundantly illustrated in order to support the author's 
findings and interpretations. However most photographic illustrations 
(189 at least) were fabricated with material lifted from the 
publications of other authors, commonly from localities or stratigraphic 
intervals other than those indicated by M.M. Imam.

I do hope that such a fraud will not happen again. It is possibly a mere 
wish...
As stated in the conclusions "*reviewers are* -and will remain- * the 
keystone in evaluation*". Remember it whenever you will be asked to 
review a manuscript.

Best wishes,

Bruno Granier
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Brest







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