{"id":62937,"date":"2015-02-09T07:18:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62937"},"modified":"2015-02-09T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T15:19:08","slug":"why-would-anyone-question-indias-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=62937","title":{"rendered":"Why Would Anyone Question India&#8217;s Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do people from India have a history of cheating or something?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/02\/09\/india-economy-gdp-idINKBN0LD1AI20150209\">(Reuters)<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Taken at face value, India on Monday became the fastest growing major economy in the world after its statisticians changed the way they measure Asia&#8217;s third-largest economy and showed it clocked faster growth than China in the December quarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next you&#8217;ll tell me that Nigerians sometimes exaggerate. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.vdare.com\/articles\/indian-diversity-superstars-and-the-cancer-of-dishonesty-at-the-heart-of-american-medical-research\">VDARE reports<\/a>: But the real story is not the trial, but how the American medical establishment willfully ignored an Indian immigrant doctor falsifying his research, leading to worthless data, hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted, and the possibility that cancer patients received mistaken treatment. And there\u2019s no way of knowing how much more of this fraud is out there.<\/p>\n<p>The case of Dr. Anil Potti is merely the latest example in an endless chronicle of Indian immigrant professional shenanigans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do people from India have a history of cheating or something? 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