Scientist Fakes Data and Goes to Jail

Faking data doesn't pay. Eric Poehlman a tenured faculty member at the University of Vermont pleaded guilty of making up over ten years of scientific data on obesity, menopause and aging over what many people considered a successful career of clinical research. In August he began a year-long jail term

A New York Times Magazine article that documents Pohelman's fall from grace states:

"He presented fraudulent data in lectures and in published papers, and he used this data to obtain millions of dollars in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health — a crime subject to as many as five years in federal prison. Poehlman’s admission of guilt came after more than five years during which he denied the charges against him, lied under oath and tried to discredit his accusers. By the time Poehlman came clean, his case had grown into one of the most expansive cases of scientific fraud in U.S. history."