<![CDATA[io9: Fraud]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Fraud]]> http://io9.com/tag/fraud http://io9.com/tag/fraud <![CDATA[Are you faking ADHD to get drugs? Doctors are on to you!]]> Have you been faking ADHD to get Adderall? The charade is over! Here's how your intrepid physician sniffs out ADHD fakers who are just in it for the drugs. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5746153&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How a cat named Zoe earned several advanced degrees and became a psychotherapist]]> A diploma doesn't necessarily indicate expertise. Zoe D Katze, Ph.D., C.Ht., DAPA, for example, has a wall of diplomas, despite being unable to sign her name. She doesn't have the opposable thumbs for it. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5743428&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New study shows American and Indian scientists are the most fraudulent]]> A new study shows which nations in the world have the highest rate of retracting scientific papers due to fraud. Which country has the dirtiest scientists? A statistician analyzes the numbers for you. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5692788&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Are you seeing patterns in numbers everywhere? You're not crazy - it's Benford's Law.]]> Pick any large set of random data you like. Look at the first digit of all the numbers. You're going to see a lot of ones. It's not just a coincidence. It's the law. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5674173&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Doctor injected MS and ALS patients with bovine stem cells as part of fraudulent "cure," medical panel says]]> Former runway-model Laura Brown and her husband Stephen van Rooyen are still fighting extradition from South Africa, for an alleged scam to provide a stem cell "cure" for neurological diseases. But one doctor who worked with them wasn't so lucky. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5651791&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A 1934 Map Of The Secret Lizard City Under Los Angeles]]> In 1934, G. Warren Shufelt told the Los Angeles Times he had discovered the remnants of an ancient reptilian civilization under L.A. Even though Shufelt's story was a load of bullpucky, he left this nifty map as his legacy. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5471611&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[History's Greatest Robot Hoaxes]]> From our earliest dreams of golems and Galatea, people have wanted to create artificial beings with human characteristics and abilities. But in our haste to see a future of walking, talking mechanical humanoids, we're easily fooled by con artists looking to exploit our sense of wonder. Hoaxers and engineers, magicians and advertising agencies have sold the public on "robots" whose incredible abilities seemed to defy explanation. We pull the curtain back on some the fake automata that captured the human imagination. More »
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