An old case of the fabrication of scientific evidence from the 1920's.
There's a couple of articles by Jeroen van Dongen on arXiv:
"Emil Rupp, Albert Einstein and the canal ray experiments on
wave-particle duality: Scientific fraud and theoretical bias"
http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3099
"The interpretation of the Einstein-Rupp experiments and their
influence on the history of quantum mechanics"
http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3226
, and there's also a two-page piece on the Rupp affair by Michael
Brooks published in this week's New Scientist (17-Nov 2007,
"lightbulb" cover), on pp.58-59.
It's sobering reading.
=Erk= (Eric Baird)
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