We just heard a news item on NPR‘s “All Things Considered” regarding a scandal over the science behind the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada. Turns out that some of the scientists studying the site’s safety “may have doctored their research.”
But it gets better! They wrote about it in e-mail messages as long ago as seven years! According an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “The Energy Department said Wednesday that a U.S. Geological Survey worker had ‘indicated that he had fabricated documentation of his work’ in e-mails written between May 1998 to 2000.”
Here’s a sample of one of the e-mail messages:
