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Thank heaps !

I've spoken with my colleagues and apparently this kind of "policy" are quite normal in his hometown university. Censorship, lies, and more of fabricated results, all for getting the government funding. One could wonder what will happen next in academia.

What is the whole point of doing research, if your own result will be calibrated with some else data...

I will stand up and refused to change my data and I will not send my raw data (excel files) to him.

Heap thanks for your replies.

Yes, my PhD thesis was already awarded and it passed the examination from 4 examiners; I've graduated recently and in holiday at the moment. There is no requirement for publication in my faculty before or after graduations; however I've published 4.

Right in the middle of my holiday, supervisor #2 (the one that ignored and refused to give feedback on my PhD review), sent me an e-mail stating that my thesis data in one of the Chapter was insufficient and set of experimental data from my thesis were wrong.

I have no desired to publish this, however supervisor #2 insisted that I should publish this ASAP. Supervisor #2 got one student directly under him and working on similar project. This student obtained different results from my thesis.

Hence, he requested that if I am too busy of "holidaying", then I should send all the "Excel Files" from my thesis to his student so this student can "adjust" the data for publications. He promised that I will become the first author and his student become the second author.

This is rather strange as my publication data/graphs would be very different from my thesis. My thesis is already published on-line by the University.

I felt this is very unethical. This set of experiments involved with lot of human interactions, number of factors could contribute to this error.

I refused to reply to his request (supervisor #2) and now he tried to find every holes in my thesis.
During thesis writing, supervisor #2 had stated clearly that he would not read my thesis. My thesis was only under guidance from Supervisor #1 (my main supervisor).

My PhD thesis was already awarded and it passed the examination from 4 examiners and the University.

I am worried about my degree. I really want to move on and ignored his request (Supervisor #2).

I do not want to lose my PhD.

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Dear Friends,

I have just completed PhD and recently graduated. Now, I am resting and having a good deserved holiday. Hooray !

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Now is the sad story:
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I've got e-mail from my supervisors stating that I've to publish another paper. I've got 4 publications already. This ruined my holiday and also there is no requirement in my faculty to publish paper, but I obeyed him and wrote a draft paper. His comments were not that good. Slowly, I am preparing the corrections....He was not impressed with the progress (C'mon mate I'm in holiday!)

He also requested another PhD student to double check my experiments and calculations. He do not believe my results as his student got different results. I am not with this student when he ran the experiment.

My experiments were complex and many factors could contribute to different findings. One of them are faulty controller and sensitive flow meter.

He questioned my results and requested to alter my data (in my Thesis) to his student results for the sake of publication.

I already graduated and really sick to the death about this, as he never gave feedback on my previous PhD review's report.

My thesis is approved and I am awarded with PhD. Now with the publication, he wanted me to publish Chapter in my thesis with results "adjusted" to match his PhD student. Is this ethical ? He also wanted me to become the first author of this paper.

What should I do? Can he take away my Ph.D degree if my data do not match his students' ?

Thanks