Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change the public perception that members of Congress devote less than full time to their jobs and pick up a lot of money from special interests in the form of generous speaking honorariums, lawyer's fees, gifts to secret office slush funds and occasionally outright graft and fraud...
...polls had not even closed when Ed Sadlowski, insurgent candidate for president of the 1.4 million-member United Steelworkers, began muttering about fraud. Brewing up a cauldron of bean soup at his cluttered campaign headquarters in Chicago, he told visitors that only by stealing the election could union chiefs deprive him of the presidency: "They've done it before, and they'll do it again." At his opponent's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Campaign Press Chief Hank Raebun phoned Organization Candidate Lloyd McBride at home in St. Louis. "We're doin' good, buddy," he crowed...
Archeologists came to accept that Vikings traveled to North America only after material evidence--artifacts such as tools and pottery--and settlement ruins were found in Nova Scotia. But Fell's book includes no hard archeological evidence that has not either been declared a fraud by professional archeologists, established as something other than what Fell says it is, or been considered in the context of a more plausible hypothesis than the one Fell constructs...
...Marshall McKusick, state archeologist of Iowa, wrote a book called The Davenport Conspiracy in which he assembled the massive evidence of a fraud. Included was testimony by Davenport residents that the objects were manufactured in the basement of the Davenport Academy, the headquarters of an amateur scientific society similar to many that existed in nineteenth century America...
...utterly worthless. Absence of appropriate controls meant that the correlations could just as easily be attributed to environmental as to hereditary influences. The only study of identical twins which claimed to have controlled for environmental factors, that of English psychologist Sir Cyril Burt, proved to be a classic scientific fraud. As early as 1973 Kamin pointed out that Burt's data had to be "cooked". (See L. Kamin: The Science and Politics of I.Q., 1974.) For example, in three articles, published over an eleven year period, with a 150 per cent increase in sample size, Burt reported a correlation...