The sad story of the young boy who was alleged to be a genius ("Boy Genius? Mother Says She Faked Tests," front page, March 2) features three villains.
In the past couple of years, the Yankees have been mentioned in an ethics report that levied a record fine against a governor; corruption charges against companies that faked tests on concrete at the team's new stadium in the Bronx; and, more recently, the police ticket-fixing scandal and the corruption trial of Larry B. Seabrook, a city councilman from the Bronx.
If radionuclides are not detected, Park argues, "the chance of a faked test is quite high".
Theranos secretly bought lab equipment through a shell company, faked tests and inappropriately pumped up its financial outlook to investors, according to allegations in recently unsealed court documents, first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The noxious stench of faked emissions tests spreads to Europe – and the Frankfurt stock exchange.
In addition, Bloomberg reported that key parts of the faked emissions tests had been overseen by VW executives based in the company's headquarters in Wolfsburg.
Now, federal prosecutors say their work was the heart of a conspiracy in which they ordered crews to crudely rip asbestos from walls while the lab faked air tests, putting potentially thousands of people at risk of disease and death.
Now, a snowballing scandal in South Korea about bribery and faked safety tests for critical plant equipment has highlighted yet another similarity: experts say both countries' nuclear programs suffer from a culture of collusion that has undermined their safety.
There are poisoned Maggi noodles, faked blood tests, and pregnancies (real and less so), not to mention the usual crosses and double crosses of love and the divorce business.
Faking reviews often begins with faked reviews of the company faking the reviews.
