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Vishwa Jit Gupta

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358:, noting the credentials of his co-workers. The case unravelled with several co-workers realizing that they had been misled and who had assumed good faith, overlooked obvious contradictions and paradoxical results which would arise from the claims made, particularly in assuming that Gupta had collected the fossils where he claimed they had been found. A range of other malpractices were also reported including the reuse of specimens from disparate locations, the use of a specimen that was found missing elsewhere, and plagiarism of images. 361:
John Talent received death threats from Gupta. In an interview to ABC he went on record to note that a technician in Gupta's department who threatened to reveal details of the fraud was reportedly killed in hit-and-run accident. Talent claimed that Gupta had offered money to hitmen to inflict injury
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age. They subsequently chanced on his use of the same image in two papers and initially considered the possibility of an error through the addition of a wrong photograph. A more detailed examination showed that Gupta had used illustrations of fossils that were similar to specimens collected near New
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Gupta studied M.Sc. in the Department of Geology (at the time the Centre of Advanced Study in Palaeontology and Himalayan Geology) at Panjab University, Chandigarh. After enrolling in a doctoral programme under the supervision of Mulk Raj Sahni, he investigated on the fossils of the Himalayan region
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Gupta's publishing record based on work purportedly made over 20 years consisting of more than 400 research papers came under scrutiny after Talent researched his claims and work for nearly nine years so as to make a clear case of fraud. The discovery of the fraud began when Talent and John Pickett
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Gupta soon joined the faculty of geology and produced his first Ph.D. scholar Inder Jeet in 1972. Panjab University awarded him a D.Sc. in 1972 in recognition of his research, and created a separate chair, Director of the Institute of Paleontology, for him. By 1989, he published over 458 research
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and the Society for Scientific Values bringing out evidence of Gupta's elaborate misconduct. By that time, Gupta was professor of geology as well as director of the Institute of Paleontology of the Panjab University. Vice Chancellor
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Talent, John A.; Brock, Glenn A.; Engelbretsen, Michael J.; Kato, Makato; Morante, Richard; Talent, Ross C. (1989). "Himalayan Palaeontologic Database Polluted by Recycling and Other Anomalies".
180:, publishing five books and 458 articles on the subject between 1966 and 1989. However, many of his fossils were revealed to be fake or manipulated, and he became infamous for large-scale 351:
in 1879. They interviewed coauthors, talked to Gupta on several occasions and made a detailed case after nine years of research accusing Gupta of willful and large scale fraud.
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fossils. They found no fossils at nearly all the twenty sites he had mentioned but they found one site which yielded a fossil of a
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issued Gupta's suspension order in February 1991, but reinstated by a new Vice Chancellor T.N. Kapoor in January 1992. The
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revoked its financial support to Gupta's lab. In 1994, the legal inquiry led M. S. Gujral, a retired judge of the
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Gupta collaborated with 128 eminent scientists around the world, including William B. N. Berry, Director of the
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on his enemies. The aged mother of one of the Indian co-authors of the report by Talent published by the
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Devonian of the World: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on the Devonian System — Memoir 14
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Palaeontology, Stratigraphy and Structure of the Palaeozoic Rocks of the Area South-East of Srinagar
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Palaeontology, Stratigraphy and Structure of the Palaeozoic Rocks of the Area South-East of Srinagar
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Erben, H. K. (1989). "Statement concerning a paper on Devonian allegedly Himalayan ammonoids".
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After retirement, Gupta focussed on environmental issues and wrote seven books on the subject.
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Webster, Gary D. (2016). "An evaluation of the V. J. Gupta echinoderm papers, 1971–1989".
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in Kashmir. He and Sahni published the first reports of fossils in 1964, the discovery of
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Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy
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visited a road cut site in Nepal where Gupta had reported prolific numbers of Devonian
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Patnaik, Pratap R. (2015). "Scientific Misconduct in India: Causes and Perpetuation".
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In 1989, Gupta was exposed as a research fraudster by Australian geologist
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Ruffell, Alastair; Majury, Niall; Brooks, William E. (1 February 2012).
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Gupta, V. J.; Rhodes, F. H. T.; Austin, R. L. (30 October 1967).
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Talent, John A. (1989). "The case of the peripatetic fossils".
1157:"A late devonian ammonoid faunula from himachal pradesh, india" 597: 1194:
Budurov, K. J.; Gupta, V. J.; Kachroo, R. K. (1 August 1984).
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Waterhouse, J. B. (1990). "The peripatetic fossils: Part 4".
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Jit Gupta, Vishwa (1989). "The peripatetic fossils: Part 2".
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Ruffell, Alastair; Majury, Niall; Brooks, William E. (2012).
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In 1966, Panjab University awarded him a Ph.D. on the thesis
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coauthored nine of Gupta's papers. With Susan Turner of the
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Talent, John A. (1990). "The peripatetic fossils: Part 5".
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I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Newsletter
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Waterhouse, J. B.; Gupta, V. J. (1 September 1979).
718:"Lower Palaeozoic Fossils from the Kashmir Himalaya" 453:"Layers of dust years after 'Himalayan fossil hoax'" 236:'s Museum of Paleontology, Gerhard R. Fuchs of the 141: 125: 115: 101: 82: 72: 64: 49: 30: 23: 219:Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India. 16:Indian paleontologist accused of scientific fraud 798:Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 366:was hit and serious injured in a road accident. 794:"First record of fossils in the Muth Quartzite" 669:Sahni, M. R.; Gupta, V. J. (1 December 1964). 622:Sahni, M. R.; Gupta, V. J. (25 January 1964). 354:Gupta attempted to respond to the claims with 229:articles and five books on Himalayan geology. 8: 835:Verhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 1103:"Late Palaeozoic Corals from the Himalayas" 920:Berry, William B. N.; Gupta, V. J. (1966). 1779:Journal of the Geological Society of India 1155:Gupta, V. J.; Erben, H. K. (1 June 1983). 961:"In retrospect chosen by Philippe Janvier" 20: 1691: 1381: 1276: 976: 922:"Monograptids from the Kashmir Himalayas" 624:"Graptolites in the Indian Sub-continent" 211:, and fossil assemblage in two papers in 1800:Thesis published under M.R. Sahni (1966) 1132:Gaździcki, Andrzej; Gupta, V.J. (1981). 1101:Kato, Makoto; Gupta, Vishwa Jit (1989). 1078:Brookfield, M. E.; Gupta, V. J. (1988). 184:, the case that came to be known as the 375: 1227:"Scientist Accused of Faking Findings" 1138:Bulletin - Geological Society of India 385:"Scientist Accused of Faking Findings" 1403: 1401: 1298: 1296: 1225:Stevens, William K. (23 April 1989). 889: 887: 885: 883: 881: 821: 819: 550:Waterhouse, J. B. (25 January 1990). 483:"What happens to the Whistleblowers?" 383:Stevens, William K. (23 April 1989). 310:University Grants Commission of India 7: 1478:"Books authored by Vishwa Jit Gupta" 1364:Jayaraman, K. S. (1 February 1991). 1259:Gupta, V. J.; Turner, Susan (1973). 498: 496: 477: 475: 473: 417:Chaman, Vishakha (28 October 2017). 758:Sahni, M. R.; Gupta, V. J. (1964). 716:Sahni, M. R.; Gupta, V. J. (1964). 86:Himalayan geology and fossil record 246:Museum of Natural History at Paris 234:University of California, Berkeley 14: 1338:Kenyon, Clare (14 October 2022). 1033:"Devonian Conodonts from Kashmir" 792:Sahni, M.R.; Gupta, V.J. (1964). 552:"The peripatetic fossils: part 4" 282:University of Newcastle upon Tyne 260:), Michael E. Brookfield of the 1693:10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.06.004 1548:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.12.001 826:Fuchs, G.; Gupta, V.J. (1971). 521:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.12.001 451:Bharti, Vishav (3 April 2016). 248:, John Bruce Waterhouse of the 1825:20th-century Indian biologists 1436:Science and Engineering Ethics 252:, Frank H. T. 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Index

Panjab University
Himalayan fossil hoax
Geology
Paleontology
Panjab University
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Panjab University
Chandigarh
Himalayas
scientific fraud
Himalayan fossil hoax
Houdini
graptolites
Nature
Current Science
University of California, Berkeley
Geological Survey of Austria
Philippe Janvier
Museum of Natural History at Paris
University of Queensland
University College of Swansea
Cornell University
University of Guelph
Hokkaido University
Polish Academy of Sciences
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Washington State University
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Devonian

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