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Harvard Scholar Who Studies Honesty Is Accused of Fabricating Findings (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The Harvard scholar is being accused of deliberately fabricating study results by changing data in a spreadsheet on at least one of the studies.

I think the other commenter mentioned lack of replicability because that's often one of the first indications that the original research results were fraudulent. Inability to reproduce will cause people to go digging through the original data, which is how this stuff gets found in many cases.