Three prominent US scientists have been pushed to resign over the past 10 days

The most spectacular fall concerned Jose Baselga, chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He authored hundreds of articles on cancer research.

Baselga failed to disclose in dozens of research articles that he had received millions of dollars from pharmaceutical and medical companies.

Next came the case of Brian Wansink, director of the Food and Brand Lab at the prestigious Cornell University.

He made his name thanks to studies that garnered plenty of media attention, including on pizza, and the appetites of children.

In the final case, Gilbert Welch, a professor of public health at Dartmouth College, resigned last week.

The university accused him of plagiarism in an article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the most respected American medical journal.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fall-top-us-scientists-points-ethics-gap-research-045350389.html

During presidential election years, turnout averages between 50 percent and 60 percent of eligible voters. That figure drops to about 40 percent during congressional midterm elections.

2014 midterm voter turnout: 36.4 percent, lowest figure since 1942.

2016 presidential voter turnout: 58.1 percent.

https://www.voanews.com/a/congressional-midterms-through-history/4547818.html

Is it aliens? Scientists detect more mysterious radio signals from distant galaxy

Some think the “fast radio bursts” could be evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization.

Researchers using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia announced the detection of 15 pulses of radio energy from an object known to the astronomy community as FRB 121102

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/it-aliens-scientists-detect-more-mysterious-radio-signals-distant-galaxy-ncna912586

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