Chitchat Pay and pay for FT who are fakes and frauds [A*STAR]

[banananaboi]

You may have read the recent story about our indian FTs in NTU and Astar faking research papers. Has it even occured to you who are the FT scientists in Singapore? Why would they leave their countries to come to work in Singapore? Are they talented? Or do they have very limited choices?

Some of them actually have a checkered history and you wonder why they end up holding high positions in Singapore? Is there enough checks conducted on these scientists before they are employed with government money?

I found one Dennis Polla and he is a Director in Astar.

In 2000, he was a professor at University of Minnesota but "A $500,000 University investigation into alleged financial mismanagement resulted in the Jan. 7 resignation of Dennis Polla, head of the University's biomedical institute. The investigation found Polla mishandled private and federal funds while billing the federal government inappropriately."

Another website says: "Professor Dennis Polla was investigated by the federal government for misappropriating research funds. The University of Minnesota was forced to pay $812,494 in 2002 to settle the investigation. An internal university report says that his work for the federal government was "financially mismanaged, scientifically unsuccessful and deficient in progress reports."

Source:
a)
http://www.mndaily.com/2000/01/18/polla-resigns-post-light-ofmismanageme...
b)
http://loathingbioethics.blogspot.com/2011/03/another-university-of-minn...

I would urge the authorities to conduct stringent checks on the past conduct and current work of these research scientists. If the money that Singapore government pours into scientific research is only going to get us frauds and second grade results, then the money would be better spent grooming home-grown talent.

Reproduced from:
https://complaints892.rssing.com/chan-55877781/all_p103.html

 

[Pinkieslut]

AMDKs Bestest. Many Sinkies think so.

Dont waste your time trying to fight the impossible, that is trying to change the mind of retards.

 

[birdie69]

AMDKs Bestest. Many Sinkies think so.

Dont waste your time trying to fight the impossible, that is trying to change the mind of retards.

They have no idea at all now to check , these fake talents are no talent but smarter than our idiots.

 

[Pinkieslut]

 

[Pinkieslut]

Campus Confidential
U professor now under scrutiny was cut from NSF grant partly because of D.C. job

By jennaross

MARCH 18, 2011 — 10:01AM

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A nugget regarding Dennis Polla, a University of Minnesota professor who got in trouble a decade ago for misappropriating research money and is under scrutiny today for holding a full-time job on the East Coast:
I learned from the National Science Foundation that since the U and the Department of Justice investigated him, he had worked on another NSF grant, in 2004.
However, he was removed from that project in 2005.
A document shows that Marquette University, the organization that got the grant and subcontracted with Polla for part of the work, requested to remove him from the project.
"After further study of the fabrication problem, and based on recent encouraging results obtained with device fabrication in our laboratory, we now believe that we will be able to successfully complete all the required fabrication steps at Marquette University," the request says.
It also notes that Polla was working full time for the federal government:

"Being away in Washington, D.C., it would have been difficult for him to recruit and direct a new graduate student's work at the University of Minnesota. So the fact that we will be able to do all the fabrication work at Marquette University is good for the project. While Dr. Polla will not be directing a student, he has kindly agreed to be available for consultation, if required, without any cost to the project."

Polla does not do any research for the U now, his boss says.

 

[banananaboi]

So where did all the check and balance go? Why we keep relying on am and not sinkies? No hope SG, stronger at giving money.

 

[millim6868]

A bunxh of fakes cheap PAPigs MPs cos like CCS say that sinkies are idiots ,he is right,so many if them ,even my workplace also hv fakes ,they are everywhere

 

[banananaboi]

https://www.nsf.gov/oig/case-closeout/I99090038.pdf

Clearly not an honest chap. Mishandled grants and got investigated by NSF. Most likely cannot do anything in US, so came to SG land.

 

[banananaboi]

Polla resigns post in light of mismanagement investigation

Name and shame! He should resign! We want an investigation!

https://mndaily.com/237850/uncategorized/polla-resigns-post-light-ofmismanagement-investigation/