<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">fabio vicentini</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fmvicent@gmail.com">fmvicent@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:50 AM<br>Subject: The corruption series (23)<br>To: "<a href="mailto:presidencia@conicet.gov.ar">presidencia@conicet.gov.ar</a>" <<a href="mailto:presidencia@conicet.gov.ar">presidencia@conicet.gov.ar</a>>, <a href="mailto:FulbrightNEXUS@iie.org">FulbrightNEXUS@iie.org</a>, <a href="mailto:info@fundacionsadosky.org.ar">info@fundacionsadosky.org.ar</a>, <a href="mailto:info@mincyt.gob.ar">info@mincyt.gob.ar</a>, <a href="mailto:prensa@mincyt.gov.ar">prensa@mincyt.gov.ar</a><br>
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<p>Canto ventitreesimo: ANPCYT </p>
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<p> To OR Colleagues</p>
<p> <span lang="EN-US">Dear
Madam/Sir : </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> I read the
article "La red mafiosa en la ciencia y la universidad argentina" by
Eduardo Saguier where he listed 250 academics - among them professors of my own
school - who were in charge of granting funds of ANPCYT and, at the same time,
they were in the receiving end of the grants. ANPCYT is a governent agency to
promote scientific research. Researchers got a sum of the order of 100,000
dollars to finance a project. What project? I am curious to know. The
"mafiosa" word in the article's heading suggests that they are
stealing, more precisely, they have a secure wile for commiting theft by
invoking goddess Minerva. </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> I was
living on a miserable pension of 1000 dollars a month, and when I read this<b><i>
</i></b><span>piece
of mind</span> I got sick - I decided to endeavor myself to investigate these
academic wise guys. Here is a couple of hints :</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> 1) The
chairman of the Computer Science dept concocted project "<span>UBASoft" that - he promised - will produce software for
all the present, future or fancied areas of Computer Science: </span><span style>Cryptography, Combinatorial Optimization, Software
Engineering, Paralell Computation, Image Processing, Computation Biology and Data
Mining.</span> He was awarded 100,000 dollars to develop this high-sounding <span>pretension</span> that never produced a single thing for any of the
aforementioned areas. I denounced the project to the dean of the school, Jorge
Aliaga, who disclaimed the charge and pronounced Dr Marcelo Frias "uomo
d'onore". </span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> 2) ANPCYT
called for projects in need of funds to retool equipments in research labs (PME
2006). All the departments of my school discovered right away the peremptory
need for modernizing their equipments, so they asked for grants, specifically</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><table style="width:165pt;margin-left:2.9pt;border-collapse:collapse" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="275"><tbody><tr style="min-height:13.2pt"><td style="width:79pt;padding:0cm 3.5pt;min-height:13.2pt" nowrap valign="bottom" width="132">
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Dept of
FCEyN</span></td>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><span> </span>Award (pesos)</span></p>
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<p>quimica bio</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">2790000</span></p>
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<p>quimica bio</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">896578</span></p>
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<p>geologia</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">2969526</span></p>
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<p>geologia</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">299900</span></p>
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<p>geologia</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">200992</span></p>
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<p>geologia</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">1200</span></p>
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<p>fisica</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">1509000</span></p>
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<p>fisica</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">800200</span></p>
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<p>fisio y bio</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">2309000</span></p>
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<p>ecologia</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">1382278</span></p>
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<p>ecologia</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">267000</span></p>
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<p>ecologia</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">198931</span></p>
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<p>Quimica Org</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">1799000</span></p>
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<p>biodiversidad</p>
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<p>matematica</p>
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<p style="text-align:right" align="right"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">627360</span></p>
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<p>industrias</p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US"> I do not
mean to say that all this money was wasted. But I was a math professor and<span> </span>I had doubts about the figure 627,360</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">assigned to the math dept: what is
it for? which lab equipments do they mean? - I asked the math dept chairwoman,
but I did not receive an answer. Perhaps I should have asked the question to
dean Jorge Aliaga but I would rather not for he would disclaim the charge and
pronounce Dr Ursula Molter "donna d'onore."<span> </span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> I worked as
an operation researcher for Du Pont de Nemours and the Techint Group. They paid
me a salary for my research but no grants or funds for doing my job. In these
two private enterprises they stay alert that money is not spent uselessly - but
who is there to prevent <span><span>thievery
by </span></span>state mandarins? There is a rhetorical difference between
aggravated assault and filling out an ANPCYT form asking for a grant for a <span>spurious p</span>roject. ANPCYT got the money as a loan from IDB,
adding to Argentina's external debt that “We the People” have to repay.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> So it
happened that after reading the aforementioned article I started an
investigation of selected suspects of Saguier's list to uncover corruption in
FCEyN/UBA. My first report to all the faculty "Los subsidios de la
investigación: Corrupción en Exactas - UBA"<span> </span></span><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/subsidios/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.freewebs.com/subsidios/</span></a><span> <span> </span><span lang="EN-US">was greeted by
insulting responses from the school mafia. </span></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> Sincerely,</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US"> Fabio
Vicentini, PhD</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">OR
consultant</span></p><p>------------------</p><p>Esta carta fue enviada a aprox 90 colegas de investigacion operativa y 30 editores de dicha especialidad.<br></p><p><br><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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