Nearly two decades and $108 million worth of “disturbing” data
manipulation with “serious and far ranging” effects forced a federal lab
to close, a congressman revealed Thursday. The inorganic section of the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy
Geochemistry Laboratory in Lakewood, Colo. manipulated data on a variety
of topics – including many related to the environment – from 1996 to
2014. The manipulation was caught in 2008, but continued another six
years. “It’s astounding that we spend $108 million on manipulated research
and then the far-reaching effects that that would have,” Rep. Bruce
Westerman said at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing...more
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