By AUSTIN DACEY - CSI
Added: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 UTC

Thanks to Dr. Angie McQuaig, Camp Inquiry Director. for the link.
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/sharia-compliant_science/

The official results of the disputed Iranian presidential election in June 2009 aren’t the only unbelievable numbers to come out of Tehran lately. This fall, the publisher of the peer-reviewed journal Engineering and Computers withdrew a paper co-authored by Iran’s science minister, Kamran Daneshjou, after Nature magazine revealed that it had been plagiarized. The paper, “Analysis of Critical Ricochet Angle Using Two Space Discretization Methods,” contained significant portions of text, figures, and tables copied from a 2002 article by South Korean researchers in the Journal of Physics.1

Critics have also questioned the legitimacy of the academic credentials of Daneshjou, a professor at Iran University of Science and Technology (his online vita currently states that he did doctoral studies at the Imperial Collage of London).2 As it happens, Kaneshjou was running the Interior Ministry’s election headquarters in June, and his new appointment came courtesy of the man who claimed victory, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Maybe it does all add up.

Perhaps this behavior is to be expected from a member of Iran’s mullahcractic regime, which has perfected the tradition of taqiyya, or religiously-sanctioned dissimulation. What is more shocking is that Iran is among the more scientifically productive nations in the Islamic world—for present purposes, defined as the fifty-seven members of the intergovernmental Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
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TAGGED: IRRATIONALITY, RELIGION, SCIENCE