To: EPSRC, and its umbrella organisation Research Council UK
EPSRC, do you still cover up academic fraud in the UK?
I want EPSRC to admit that they would not investigate allegations of fraud in research funded by them.
That instead EPSRC would refuse to set up an investigation by themselves on the basis of evidence given to them, and allow Universities to self exonerate themselves.
That they would further refuse evidence disproving the findings of Universities in case of a subsequent appeal against the "investigation".
Why is this important?
EPSRC is a branch of Research Council UK, the largest public funding agency in your country. It supplies hundreds of millions of pounds in funding every year.
See www.epsrc.ac.uk.
The pretense is that this money is given to Research Organizations with adequate procedures to tackle scientific fraud. This is not so. In fact, fraud in publicly funded research has promoted the careers of incompetent people at British Universities.
I know most of you won't know much chemistry, but there is Wikipaedia to check up simple scientific facts: what would you think, after checking that aluminum sulphate is Al2(SO4)3 and phenol an acid, I told you that two academics at two of the top five Universities in the UK wrote a research paper where they gave phenol as an alkali and aluminum sulphate as AlSO4? (Pst! Now that you are at the Wikipaedia site you could make a donation... ;-) )
And remember, corruption only spreads...It is therefore in your interest that public funding is not abused.
Also, by claiming that organisations funded by EPSRC have procedures to deal efficiently with fraud lends legitimacy to such institutions when dealing with people they have damaged.
For example, I want to confront EPSRC with a range of allegations which includes those made in this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2umhkGxHbasY241U3huLUZQTzA/edit?usp=sharing in an example case which still affects me.
How it will be delivered
I want people to E-mail EPSRC, at their address [email protected], asking:
"Is it true that you will not investigate independent allegations of fraud on research funded by you, and instead you will allow the organization accused of fraud to self-exonerate themselves, and then you will never consider evidence-based refutations of their actual findings in an appeal?"
