‘A moral issue to correct’: the long tail of Elena Ceaușescu’s fraudulent scientific work

Nicolae Ceau șescu’s Romanian communist regime hailed his wife as an eminent chemistry researcher, though she had no genuine qualifications. But her name lives on in academic journals, and British institutions have yet to retract honours bestowed on herRomanian researchers have called on academic publishers to remove Elena Ceau șescu’s name from almost two dozen scientific papers and books fraudulently published as her work, more than 30 years after the wife of the former communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed.Elena Ceau șescu was celebrated by state propaganda under her husband’s regime as a world-famous chemistry researcher, despite having no credible qualifications. The researchers say some of her work is still being cited andaccessed, even though she was barely literate in science and unable to recognise basic formulas taught to first-year chemistry students.Continue reading...
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