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How Science Publishing Went The Way Of Bloatware

April 17, 2015 by Tara Jenson 1 Comment

Everyone’s favorite biomedical ethicist uncle, Arthur Caplan, appeared on Science Friday last week to talk about bloat and pollution.1 And no, Caplan was bearing doomsday tidings of neither a Windows operating system nor the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Caplan took to the airwaves to direct our short attention spans to the unprecedented explosion of “plagiarism, fraud,…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: Arthur Caplan, fraud, plagiarism, Plastic Fantastic, publication pollution, science publication, Wakefield

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Fraud and Fellatio

December 17, 2012 by Doug Stephan 5 Comments

There are certain things you shouldn’t do when you fraudulently make a worker’s compensation claim.

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: Bitter News, fellatio, fraud, workers compensation

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Lou Pearlman: Citizen of the Year

July 31, 2008 by Bitter Newsroom Leave a Comment

Attempting to beat his own personal bottom-feeding record, former boy-band promoter and current federal inmate Lou Pearlman is now trying his hand at being a police informant. Pearlman, who founded promotional machines the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, is currently serving a 25-month sentence in a federal penitentiary for scamming elderly investors out of $300…

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: celebrity, fraud, Lou Pearlman

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Maybe if It Had Been 50K…

July 30, 2008 by Bitter Newsroom Leave a Comment

The legal biz is abuzz with reports that Angela Robinson, a former paralegal for heavy-hitting Texas plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard Laminack, is accusing him of not only being a “sexual predator,” but also of dabbling in federal mail fraud. Robinson alleges that that Laminack once offered her $15,000 to “stay with him in a hotel room…

Filed Under: Lawyer, News & Views Tagged With: fraud, lawsuit, malpractice

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