Harvard's Star Honesty Researcher Busted in Probe, Investigators Recommend Termination

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

AHarvard Business School professor whose research into why people cheat and act dishonestly was found by an internal probe to have cheated and acted dishonestly, according to The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper of Harvard University.

The nearly 1,300-page internal report into professor Francesca Gino found that she had adjusted data in at least four published studies so as to make the data fit the theories she was trying to prove, according to the New York Post.

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The professor, whom the Post described as a "star behavioral scientist" who had "authored over 140 academic papers and snagged numerous awards," could offer no evidence of honest error on anyone's part, according to the report.

She also apparently believed -- or claimed to believe -- that "an unknown actor with malicious intentions was a more plausible explanation than honest errors or intentional data falsification by herself."

In fact, she named the "unknown actor" she believed responsible -- a former collaborator whose named was redacted from the report when it was made public.

Again, however, Gino was unable to provide any evidence that the collaborator had actually manipulated the data, other than her ability to manipulate it, her access to it, and a potential motive in her possible "negative feelings toward Gino."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harvard-s-star-honesty-researcher-busted-in-probe-investigators-recommend-termination/ar-BB1k13vh

[Redleg]

1. Woopsie daisie

Another one bites the dust. We had a research scandal at my humble regional university about 20 years ago when I was a new professor. After a properly conducted investigation, 5 senior faculty members lost their jobs. This amounted to about half their total department.

[MichMan]

2. The amount of fraud uncovered in academia has been eye opening

Something about the culture that made this seem acceptable needs to be changed, and those affected need to be held accountable, unless they want to lose all credibility.

[Prairie Gates]

5. Absolutely massive fraud in STEM and Business schools

Shocking, really. I guess the one goofy ethics class they make these kinds of students take in undergrad doesn't quite do the trick.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. I now doubt all those NPR segments about behavior data...that guy whose on NPR all the time

was found to be a fraud too... cant recall his name right now but has lots of books about behavioral data. was on NPR ALL THE TIME..

[Jose Garcia]

3. It's like raaaaain on your wedding day

[Hekate]

4. So she adds slander against a former colleague to her other crimes. What a peach.

[MichMan]

6. Those who plagiarized or falsified their doctoral dissertations need to have their degree taken away,