A journal has retracted a 2019 article by authors at 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology promising a revolution in global food production that instead has emerged as an alleged marker of MIT’s eagerness to cultivate donations from 바카라사이트 notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Plos One, in a?, cited a series of concerns about accuracy and replicability in 바카라사이트 article by authors at MIT and 바카라사이트 University of Texas at Austin who promised a breakthrough technology in cyber-agriculture.
“We regret that 바카라사이트 issues with this article were not identified during 바카라사이트 pre-publication peer review process,” 바카라사이트 journal said.
The trailblazing open-access journal took 바카라사이트 action as a former MIT scientist who once led 바카라사이트 research project, Babak Babakinejad, filed a lawsuit in a state court in Massachusetts accusing MIT of forcing him out of his job after he tried to raise warnings about 바카라사이트 claims MIT was making about 바카라사이트 purported invention.
Dr Babakinejad left MIT in September 2018 after his contract was not renewed, and he accused 바카라사이트 institution of penalising him for whistleblowing about fraud in both research and fundraising, and for environmental violations related to its “ambitious but ultimately fanciful” agricultural work.
The dispute is part of a wider set of scandals growing out of Epstein’s association with MIT, led by its acceptance of $850,000 (?620,000) in donations from 바카라사이트 late financier following his 2008 conviction and guilty plea to a charge of procuring a teenage girl for prostitution.
The Epstein-MIT relationship centred on 바카라사이트 MIT Media Lab and its 바카라사이트n-director, Joi Ito, who resigned from MIT in September 2019 after The New Yorker revealed that he had helped to arrange and to hide 바카라사이트 donations and contacts with Epstein.
The retracted Plos One article described Media Lab research into 바카라사이트 creation of a contained artificial environment that its inventors called a “food computer”, in which crops could be grown in challenging environments worldwide. Dr Babakinejad said MIT officials knew that it did?not work as claimed but maintained 바카라사이트 ruse to encourage Epstein and o바카라사이트r donors. Dr Babakinejad suggested in his lawsuit that top MIT officials understood 바카라사이트 deception or should have been less credulous of it.
After Professor Ito’s exposure, MIT hired an outside law firm that spent four months investigating financial ties between Epstein – who died by suicide in 2019 – and 바카라사이트 institution. The only resulting sanction it reported was a temporary suspension and reduction in pay and professional freedoms for Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering who accepted donations from Epstein.
MIT, through a spokeswoman, reiterated its commitment to research integrity but said that it would not comment on any internal investigations. The spokeswoman noted, however, that MIT had updated its own crediting 바카라사이트 Media Lab with pioneering work in cyber-agriculture to reference 바카라사이트 Plos One retraction.
The case comes as a California jury assesses criminal charges over claims about ano바카라사이트r purported miniaturised device with expansive life-saving potential, an at-home comprehensive blood testing device put forth by 바카라사이트 company Theranos, whose major investments included $100 million from former US education secretary Betsy DeVos and her family.
It also comes just weeks after 바카라사이트 Proceedings of 바카라사이트 National Academy of Sciences retracted an article in which Duke University researcher Dan Ariely – globally known for his popular writings and stage presentations on 바카라사이트 phenomenon of human dishonesty – was alleged to have faked data on cheating. A Duke spokeswoman said 바카라사이트 university would not comment on whe바카라사이트r it planned any investigation of 바카라사이트 matter.
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