Top 10 Most Famous Scientific Fakes

10 took the Norwegian oncologist Jon Sudbo, who fabricated more than a thousand stories of cancer diseases, to justify their research on the effectiveness of their anti-inflammatory drug, which he promoted by the pharmaceutical industry.

9 Place was Director of the Berlin Institute of Social Medicine – Stefan Willich, who manipulated the results of investigations, which he conducted to prove the influence of strong noise on the heart.

At the 8 spot – absolutely untenable theory nuclear engineer Ruzi Taleyyarhana about the possibility of fusion reactions induced by acoustic shock waves.

7 th place: even recognized geniuses engaged in fraud. There is evidence that the majority of Newton’s theory – absolute fiction.

Founder of ideas about genes and heredity, Mendel manipulated the results of research.

6 place in our ranking scholar received for all the experiments stopped exactly at the point when they received the desired results.

5 was replaced by a French scientist Louis Pasteur for having betrayed created bacteriologist Charles Shamberlenom vaccine for his invention.

Studies of paleontology and archeology can provide a huge number of scientific fabrications. History of George Psalmanazara at 4 place ranking. After his arrival in England in 1704 traveler described how the inhabitants of the island was captured by Formosa – present o.Tayvan. As it turned out later, culture, language, religion and calendar of the islanders were totally fictitious.

3 place to get a ‘discovery’ of the German paleontologist Rainer von Protsh go. Discovered the bones of the skeleton of a man who could become the bridge between Neanderthals and modern man, a scientist artificially old, having given them a scientific sensation. It claimed to come, the bones belonged to a man who lived 36,000 years ago, but detailed examination established the age of the bones in 7, 6 thousand years.

2 nd place: professor of veterinary science at Seoul National University’s Woo-Suk Hwang deliberately falsified the results of experiments on cloning human stem cells. Instead, the scientist smodifitsiroval normal somatic cells, for which later was accused of scientific fraud.

1 seat to the famous scientist and psychologist Sigmund Freud – proved that his theories were based on observation of only one patient.