Stork CV Changes

In November 2005, the first sentence of Stork’s CV downloaded from the Ricoh Innovations web site claimed the following professional affiliation with Stanford:

Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh Innovations as well as Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

After Stanford became aware of the problems with the data in Stork’s publications and discussed this with him, the first sentence of his CV changed to:

Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh Innovations.

However, this wasn’t the only problem with Stork’s CV. On February 6, 2006, the day before Rex Dalton of ‘Nature’ contacted Stork for the first time about his problematic data, his CV claimed the following memberships on editorial boards and in professional organizations:

Editorial Boards

  • Pattern Analysis and Applications
  • Neurocomputing
  • The International Journal of Neural Systems
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications

Memberships in Professional Organizations

  • Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • International Neural Network Society (INNS)
  • Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
  • Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society
  • The National Association of Scholars (NAS)

On February 17 Dalton informed Stork that in fact-checking for his upcoming Nature article he had contacted the editors of those four journals, two of whom told him they had never heard of Stork, nor could they find his name in their records. Also, Dalton told Stork that two of the professional organizations, INNS and IBRO, that have their membership directories on-line did not list him as a member. After having been confronted with this information, by February 24 Stork had changed the above sections of his CV to:

Editorial Boards

  • Pattern Analysis and Applications
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications

In addition to deleting two of his four previously-claimed Editorial Board positions from his CV just prior to the Nature article appearing in the March 9 issue, Stork also removed the entire “Membership in Professional Organization” category, as well as all of his papers on “the Hockney-Falco Thesis.”

 

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