*Transistor...sorry

Also, Gordon Moore was cofounder of Intel, not IBM.

I'm a material scientist, and semiconductors are very important to my line of work. The Schön Scandal is arguably the most significant scandal that I know of in my field. My father was at IBM when he saw this play out in real time. Its a story I never get tired of hearing from him.

I guess I'm watching Bobby Broccoli's series on this again. It's like a monthly occurrence at this point.

BobbyBroccoli made an amazing video on this topic.

Hey! Appreciate being linked and shouted-out here, but it does feel a bit weird to reword my video's title like this. I don't have a monopoly on this subject by any means, but you're not the only other channel who has done that lol For those who want the most direct source of info on this scandal I would recommend reading Eugenie Reich's book Plastic Fantastic!

Pete intentionally spelled it "transister" to distract Americans from the word "aluminium"

1) Jan is totally guilty 2) Batlogg is not clean. He's got a postdoc with Nobel level results, and he doesn't go in the lab? That means he's a former scientist, and now just a tenured educrat in our administration heavy university system. (my advisor was in the late late night all the time, pre tenure, ...but mostly to keep me from breaking stuff) 3) Peer Review: the referee comments and revisions need to be made public for forensic analysis 4) My aforementioned advisor, when queried about a publishing in Nature/Science, just snickered, "no I want to publish in a science journal, not a porno mag".

Bobby Broccoli deserves way more credit than a shout-out at the end of your video and link at the bottom of the video description if his videos were your only source on this topic. You mention him, but you don't cite any sources. You were in academia, right? You should know that's not cool.

Ironic. He could detect all plagiarism except his own.

By 0:30 there’s already several mistakes. The comments mention some of them, but one I don’t see mentioned, Hendrik didn’t work in “transistors”, he just happened to claim to make one, his area of study was organics.

I think the author is always the primary culprit but I think peer review is the main issue. It’s a label that says “don’t question this. It was already questioned and verified!” It’s a false sense of security. Letting people say whatever they want without a filter makes everyone more skeptical, which is good imo.

BobbyBroccoli made a series about this guy and I recommend it highly. It has more nuance and information.

12:44 This point and the way you present it is EXTREMELY similar to an interview with one of the people who was involved in investigating this fraud. Plagiarism is not a road you want to go down; be careful.

According to Google : “ Transister was a British-American alternative rock band formed in late 1995 in Los Angeles.” . Lol. I know it’s just a typo, but I had to look it up for fun. Always love your videos, this a great one, it’s actually related to my field of research.

I am a physicist with a Ph.D. in materials... and I take my dedication as a reviewer very seriously, so I found several mistakes in a few articles; in one of them, I wrote, "How you are claiming this result, that is contrary of all the data that we publish in the last 30 years" ... He answers me with a paper of my director, paper that I study by years. I found that he didn't understand what my professor wrote. Also, I have a review paper. It was horrible work because of all the papers that I read; only 30% had data that I could use, and several of them, around 20%, had fake data.. How could they publish that work? In experimental physics... In materials like this case, it is normal to find fake data. The reviewers usually don't want to revise all the data and the equations... I had problems with lower claims and usually answered, "I include the raw data of those experiments that you could follow to reach that conclusion; if you find a mistake, we can study together... and if is necessary, I could provide you with the samples to measure by your self" the answer is always the same "I accept your claims." It is time-consuming, but I repeat several samples and measure again to find out if I made a mistake with the previous one.

After watching your videos regarding Francesca Gino, I thought,” but could this also happen with more verifiable science ?” It seems it most certainly can ! Thanks for covering these topics .

It’s weird that to me it feels like their was less push back on the whistle blower in this case than in some of the cases you’ve gone over in terms of cognitive science. I can’t help but suspect that much of it has to do with in the transistor case funders are more interested in the tangible product while in the cognitive science cases, funders were more interested in the findings fitting a narrative

Fantastic video! I can't wait for more! Edit: As a side note, I really like the idea of using a story like this to dig into the actual science of--in this case--transistors and learn a little bit about them. It not only gives us a sense of why this topic is is so important, but also has a bit of an educational side to it as well.

An interesting aspect of this is that Bell Labs was on the verge of bankruptcy when this happened. They were cutting staff left and right, this means that the people they kept were the ones making discoveries. It was like publish or perish turned up to eleven.

Plagarism is fine if you leave a mention in the description right?

Errors: At 1:43 Gordon Moore was a cofounder of Intel (with Robert Noyce) not IBM; IBM has been around since before Moore was born.

I really enjoy your notation!! Great Video!!

BobbyBroccoli did a great series about him on his channel. A bit long, but fantastic for anyone who’s interested.

You made me check if "transister" is a valid spelling. :D

this video is giving James Somerton smh

Really enjoying you and Bobby right now!!!

Loved Bobby's series, but your short video is such an awesome resource to share with people who don't have time to watch hours of documentary!

Did I hear that right? Gordon Moore co-founded IBM? (1:44)? Maybe try Intel.

Pete would definitely benefit from reviews of his videos by an editor. Just to mention the most obvious: 1. spelling of transistors (multiple). 2. spelling of Christian Kloc (at 3:48). 3. attribution of career of Gordon Moore (1:43). and 4. spelling of responsible (14:58)

oh man, that's hell of a sloppy attempt at capitalizing on BobbyBroccoli's work, and not even spelling his name correctly! tell as more about dodgy practices and plagiarism.

Man I loved that. The dog kept bothering me to come in and out....I thought one more time and he's going to get it.

Make more of these!!!! So many retractions i wonder what the first guy on the retraction watch did

@5:45 . . . yeah, but at least my dishes have been peer reviewed! I managed to finally complete my thesis on the advantages of leaving the pots to soak using real world data, despite my flatmates efforts to sabotage my experiments and get me evicted. Now I'm employed at a prestigious hotel where I have been putting my findings to work, so my research has borne fruit, and is making a real difference in the world!

The book “Plastic fantastic” contains lengthy discussions on problems raised in this video.

"Transistor = Switch" Clearly digital-centric. Transistors can do more than just turn ON or OFF. There are analog circuits, where the transistor is varied between on and off. No, not to be confused quantum phenomena of being both, but actually a very real ability to vary the conductivity. In the old days of electronics, it was almost all analog. You know, your grandparent's radios and TVs. All analog circuits, for decades. When I heard this guy's name, Bobbybroccoli came to mind, as he's done a real in depth coverage of this fraud. He also made another science fraud video, on stem cell research, from Korea (hwang woo-suk).

Great work!

wow, this is sooo huge, this is like a movie. a bit scary though... .i wish the journals would have an academic datawarehouse to make it easier to verify the data

Love this channel!!! It’s deserves more views!

Excellent video. You do a great job.

Wait the image you show at 1:25 is a TEM grid, how is it a transistor?

I’m never going to look at Nature and Science Journals in the same way again. It makes me wonder what other “garbage” or questionable studies, treatises, and data they have lent their erstwhile reputation to. Thank you for citing and sharing about BobbyBroccoli’s channel as well!

2:20 Germanium used to be used too. It just sucks at being a transistor. Granted, if you are into music, some people swear by germanium transistors being better in certain music hardware than silicon

Glad someone brought it up, Gordon Moore was an Intel founder, IBM was founded by Hollerinth, Flint, and Watson in 1911, a wee bit before transistors.

The irony of a youtuber posting on academic fraud himself succumbing himself to plagarism in the face of sweet youtube ad revenue... gold.

The only reason I cared to watch your channel is because of the fraud drama. So I was more than happy that you decided to focus on the flaws in academia. I think you are benefiting science as a whole thus have a much bigger positive effect.

Thank you. Very informative.

Bobby Broccoli made an incredible documentary on this... But this was still a nice refresher.

Now you're just going for BobbyBroccoli's viewers

There is a very rare, but more rigorous, process than peer review: peer auditing. An independent 3rd party must audit the actual experimental setup, data collection, and data processing for acceptance. It's expensive and inconvenient, so it's likely reserved for cases where the scientists don't trust their own results, like the "faster-than-light" neutrinos finding that turned out to be due to a damaged fibre optic line.

this is why i believe NOTHING should be published (or taken seriously) without at least TWO other researchers / teams sucessfully replicating it

Pete.. small fact-check thing: Moore was the co-founder of Intel, where he sat on the board for a very long time. His paper, called "Cramming more components into integrated circuits" is very short, and is about the idea that integrated circuits (at the time being a chip with some operational function) would become smaller, and that this would allow.. more components to be put in these varied specialisations of integrated circuits, which then would increase the processing power. His company would go on to ditch that idea completely, and instead move on to the model that made Intel the company it is, where complex circuits are replaced with higher clocked and fewer generic circuits. In other words, "Moore's law" applies to a concept that was ditched by Intel, and arguably caused the split in Fairchild that led to founding AMD. Meanwhile, Ibm and ARM have been working in areas where Moore's suggestion is more relevant. But the whole paradigm that modern computers are based on is not even remotely connected to Moore's thesis: the idea that computing power doubles every now and then, and storage space grows exponentially and so on - complete bonk. Does not happen, it's a marketing blurb. Other than that, Claudine Gay argued that opposition to sionism, to christianity, to whatever, and even very upsetting opposition to something - may very well not be a problem, nor that it should be banned from debate. In certain contexts, it is possible to argue even very distasteful things (although the culprits here were not actually calling for eradicating jews). At a university, that is not a controversial statement, to simply say that the ceiling for censorship is extremely high. And that without considering the context the statements were given, you cannot possibly just blanket condemn something as attacks on jews, or making the campus unsafe (which is what was alleged). But it is a controversial statement in the US congress and senate, never mind in the hearing that you clipped from, where criticising Israel shall not be excused "in any context". So while I'm sure the accusations "sound" worse than the plagiarism (that was basically bullshit, like you point out), they are flatly the result of the efforts of an Israel lobby that then brags about having gotten rid of Gay - in public. "This is what happens when you are silent and weak against anti-semitism", said the Israel on Campus Coalition, openly arguing for banning any opposition to not just Israel, but any pro-Israeli demonstrations. And an academic that just says "well, we should probably not ban speech, whether it's this or that" is considered a threat to that.

Bobbybroccoli is awesome and your work is great too as a shortened version

The AI upscaling on pics of Henrik looks way worse than the originals. The pics of him here look.... waxy?

Moore was a co-founder of Intel. He was never associated with IBM, as he was considered too young during his lifetime, and this remained unchanged even after his death.

Ah I know him (because other videos) xD and his organic transistor. EDIT: You mentioned the channel where I watched it first D

Good to hear you give a shout-out for Boby Brocolli.

A couple of corrections. The word Transistor comes from the words transfer and resistor, ,hence the OR not IR as the last letters. Also the first transistors were made from Germanium, not Silicon.

"Crystal wizard" 😂💀

Thought I subscribed ages ago... then you did the 'hot' meme, I obviously reached for the like button and spotted I hadn't subscribed after all! Well earned.

Thank you. You are doing a great service.

Well, at least they double checked this one before they gave him the prize Hold up, when you say there are more transistor than wheels does that include gear wheels or just wheels used on vehicles for ground travel?

Transistors are not only used as switches (in the saturation and cutoff region of the transistor), but as amplifiers when the transistor is biased in its linear region. Transistors weren't even used as switches at first.

Henrik’s Sci-Fi papers published in Nature magazine 😂

Where the hell did you come with the word "transister"?

Moore was one of the founders of Intel, he had nothing to do with IBM.

I can't get over the fact that he is one of the smartest beings on the planet, a scientist, but he made a stupid mistake by copying and pasting the exact graph in his paper. Isn't it straightforward to comprehend that this could lead people to realize he committed data fraud? (assuming he planned his way to publishing the fraudulent paper)

Note to self: CHANGE THE RANDOM NUMBER SEED!

The guys supervisor should have had more oversight on the work.

Academic fraud is VERY, VERY common, especially in the fields of psychology, behavior, and many other healthcare fields.

I didn’t realize that Bell Labs is still running under the name of Nokia Bell labs.

In experimental sciences and engineering, reviewing whether the data makes sense or not is tricky. Often, the reviewers simply do not have the resources to verify them, and they are also simply very expensive. They simply rely on the honesty of the authors. Sad reality.

I like that this example was not in social science. It was obvious that the other examples you show on social sciences had nothing to do with being "social" but that it was rather just a matter of "scientists" faking data while no one verify their works.

I didn't conciously realize you had a british accent until I saw how you spelled "transister" and thought it was the british spelling.

Your font reminds me of Sega Master System game boxes.

Have you done a video on Andes Keysa perfect example of P manipulation also the Minnesota Farmington

Back in the late 1980s, my Biophysics professor warned us that a lot of published research was sh*t, even in "reputable" journals. The other lower tier publications exist just to pad resumes.

All of them should be held to a account because they all didn’t do their jobs

IBM was founded by Charles Flint as the fusion of four existing companies. The result was renamed to IBM by T. J. Watson. I had the privilege of working under Dr Cuthbert Hurd. As he told it, he tried to persuade T. J. Watson that computers were a good idea; T. J. Watson said to him "If you sell them, we'll build them", Dr Hurd found some customers, and the rest is history. History that doesn't involve Gordon Moore. When Gordon Moore was born, IBM had been called IBM for five years already.

It's Transistors ... not Transisters ...

This is a great channel. Fraud in academia is a window into so many aspects on what’s wrong with our society. Academia is captured by private interests.

Were some of the photos in this video upscaled with an AI model?

Let's bring back "TUBES" !!....Hee, Hee, Hee !

With extremely high-productivity scientists, I'm *_ALWAYS_* skeptical of the quality of their output.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised when the hard sciences say that social science is full of fraud and they're too pure to ever have something like that happen, but God it's frustrating to hear as someone in social science who works really hard to do quality data analysis and be respectful of the people in working with. And then hearing about all this nonsense.

Are there more transistors than LEGO blocks though?

Do you have a video explaining what happened to Roland G. Fryer Jr.???

I remember this one!!!

To show how common alluminum oxide is, it's the active ingredient in sunscreen

People seem more concerned about fame than consistent work. Results ensue. I am not surprised.

1:43 Gordon Moore cofounded Intel, not IBM

basically, the academic form of click bait

Gordon Moore was the co-founder of Intel not IBM. Before Intel he worked at Fairchild.

Great video. But as far as I know heat isn't the main reason why Moores Law will end. It will end due to the limitations of quantum physics. At some point the barriers will be too narrow to stop electrons

I’m not understanding the numbers. Schon was a remarkably prolific author (one paper ever 8 days) and yet only 32 retracted. Is that right?

There is a way to cheat and not get caught. It just means your research has to be next to useless... The more significant it is, the more scrutiny there will be as significant findings usually point towards "there is lots of money to be made". It is weird how this guy too is very intelligent and yet doesn't understand that very simple equation: the more attention you get the more likely it is that you will get caught.

Somebody needs to publish a series of journals called "Null." Like, "Null, Physics" or "Null, Medicine" or "Null, Astronomy." A respectful series that specializes in publishing all of the dead ends. Failure can be even more vital to progress than success sometimes. Humanity would waste much less time.

The only people who blindly trust the peer-review system are those who don't really understand it. Even independent research that corroborates (or negates) a previous study should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism.

I really appreciate you work man!!

He was never close to winning a Nobel prize, since no one has reproduced his results. Please don’t fight bad science with clickbaits