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