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... GLOBAL NEWS ... ship of the computer discs. Citibank paid White NZ$16,000 in an out of court settlement for the return of the discs. White celebrated the set- tlement in the Central Hotel in Auckland where he counted out $10,000 (he had insisted being paid in cash) of the money in front of hotel staff. He died several hours after this when his car hit a concrete pillar on the Auckland Harbour Bridge approach. What happened between when he left the hotel and the accident is unknown. The suitcase was found in the wreck with all of the money missing. The plot thickens. On the TV news it was reported that White had received death threats and his apartment had been broken into several times before his death. The break-ins to his flat were said to have been “very profes- sional”, New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) had visited and inter- viewed him before his death. known gambling city, over the course of a weekend. Guess what, these machines took in an average of 45% more money! A study by the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation showed that people respond to certain scents by becoming nostalgic, or even child-like, making them more relaxed and possibly willing to make purchases or take risks, felt-tip pen to fake the results of skin- transplant experiments in mice in the mid Seventies. He was trying to prove that human skin, if maintained in an organ culture for several weeks, becomes universally transplantable with no risk of rejection. © 6.4. Mos. . Lo 2) John Darsee, a heart researcher at . Emory University in Atlanta and at Harvard in the early 1980s, falsified data that formed the basis for about 100 scientific publications on heart disease. The Darsee case was especially trou- bling because 47 other researchers co- authored his papers and never caught on to the fraud. Who nose, maybe this does make scents. (Source: Sunshine Coast Daily, September Sth 1992) AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS MISREPRESENTING SCIENCE PAPERS ON GREENHOUSE? 3) Sir Cyril Burt, a pioneering British psychologist, deliberately made up more than three decades of data, from the mid 1940s until 1966, to back up his bogus theory on the relationship between heredity and intelligence. He claimed human intelligence was 75% inherited, thereby reinforcing the British class system. (Source: Omni Magazine, June 1992) An ABS book titles Australia's Environment : Issues and Facts has been accused of consistently misrepre- senting scientific papers which it used as sources for its chapter on global warming. Dr Brian O'Brien said the bureau had a reputation for high-quality work, but in this case had published a “fatally flawed book". The bureau had depicted the worst-case scenarios for greenhouse forecasts as contained in now-outdated scientific papers, but had failed to note the qualifications, doubts and uncertainties expressed in them. As a consequence, the quotations "do not accu- rately reflect either the context of the papers themselves or the signifi- cant caveats that the orig- inal authors expressed", Dr. O'Brien said. Coy (Source: The Weekend Australian, July 25-26, 1992, page10) (7 4 The discs were reported (TV3 News) to contain evidence of money launder- ing and corruption including big busi- ness links with government. White has apparently hidden copies of the discs — the location of these discs is unknown. The Prime Ministers Department is refusing to comment about the SIS involvement. Winston Peters who also met him at least twice before he died is also refusing to comment at this stage. Radio New Zealand has reported that the discs also contained evidence of secret payments directly to politicians, and there’s media reports from anony- mous sources that the car accident was deliberate. A FUTURES MARKET IN DEATH US securities officials are attacking a plan that let AIDS patients get some money from their life insurance by sell- ing their policies to companies that As a consequence, the quotations "do not accu- ” rately reflect either the context of the papers themselves or the signifi- cant caveats that the orig- inal authors expressed", Dr. O'Brien said. (Source: The Weekend Australian, July 25-26, 1992, page 10) SCIENCE FRAUDS? 1) William . T. Summerlin, a researcher at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, coloured white skin grafts black with a Police Minister John Banks says the allegations raise serious questions and he’s asked the police to give them pri- ority investigation. (Source: Pegasus Computer Networks, Byron Bay, NSW, The New Zealand Herald, September 8th, 10th, 11th 1992) SUBLIMINAL SMELLS IMPROVE PROFIT An undisclosed scent manufactured in the USA, was suffused through a bank of poker machines in a well- NEXUSe7 SCIENCE FRAUDS? OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1992