"People can absorb a lot more uncertainty than officials give them credit for being able to absorb," said Dr. Sheila Jasanoff, a professor of science and public policy at Harvard, and a pattern of false reassurances undermines public trust.
Alireza Miryousefi, a spokesman at Iran's mission to the United Nations, called them fabricated and part of a pattern of false accusations by Washington, according to Agence France-Presse, the French news agency.
The indictment against him describes clandestine meetings, tape-recorded conversations, confidential places for the transfer of documents and a pattern of false statements from Dr. Mascheroni and his wife to federal authorities.
The spying indictment filed late last week against a former Los Alamos scientist contains evidence of tape-recorded conversations, clandestine meetings, confidential places for the transfer of documents and a pattern of false statements.
Audits by the New York State Health Department and the federal Agriculture Department since 2005 revealed a pattern of false submissions to the Agriculture Department, including lying about how many children were getting the meals, the complaint charges.
Some oncologists express concern about a pattern of false discoveries in this field [ 5, 6].
