Posted on 04/28/2013 6:19:32 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
When you hear about well-regarded scientists making up data in their studies, it's easy to wonder, What were they thinking?
A New York Times Magazine .... profiled Diederik Stapel, a psychologist, former dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and author of at least 55 papers with totally made-up data. .....
The first time he did it followed a predictable story line. He tested a hypothesis, he didn't find the answer he wanted, and then he didn't want to have to redo the experiment or face the fact that he'd "wasted" all that time. "I said—you know what, I am going to create the data set," he told the New York Times Magazine.
Later, he kept making up data to support hypotheses that were interesting, yet believable. The magazine described him as researching old studies thoroughly before making anything up. It seems he wasn't avoiding hard work. He was avoiding the occasional (or frequent) failure that comes with honestly done science.
(snip) He has since been the subject of media scrutiny in the Netherlands and an unflattering university report about his personality. .... Meanwhile, his case has brought an uncomfortable light to the field of psychology. Each of Stapel's fraudulent papers was peer-reviewed. Other psychologists had analyzed them and judged them of worthy of going to print. If they missed nearly 10 years of fraud from Stapel—and it was a couple graduate students who ultimately blew the whistle on Stapel, not a peer review panel—what else did they miss?
(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...
how many of his students, in the workforce, have fraudulent degrees?
Ping
Fraud is nothing new in science.
Studies examine withholding of scientific data among researchers, trainees
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1565120/posts
It May Look Authentic; Here’s How to Tell It Isn’t
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563746/posts
Most scientific papers are probably wrong
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473528/posts
Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted By Sloppy Analysis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1896333/posts
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124&ct=1
50 years ago, when I was studying Psychology at UofMD and OSU (and this guy would have been a student) my professors would have flunked him out so fast... He would never have had a PhD to abuse in the way he has.
What has happened to my field?
(( ping ))
Oh, you gotta see this!
This guy could be a “climate change scientist”.
Doesn’t this guy also go by the name “Michael Mann”?
Dolly Parton came to my mind!
Save for later reading.
I thought you weren’t supposed to post porn on FR.
Meat eaters are more selfish than vegetarians;
White people "became more likely to “stereotype and discriminate” against black people when they were in a messy environment, versus an organized one" to name a couple.
And other studies (now in question) used to influence our society, our leaders, because stereotypical progressive thinking media jumped on these findings that they liked.
I still maintained that 'hard science' is more difficult to fudge data, ('climate science' aside), but we won't know how broad the data tempering is unless the scientist comes forward him/herself.
What IS truth?
What DIFFERENCE does it make?
2000 years apart. Rome. America. Pilate. Clinton.
SSDD.
Uh maybe they all [worldly authority types] missed the forest for the trees so to speak...
101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth
Center for Scientific Creation - In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/IntheBeginningTOC.html
Dinosaur Shocker - 68 million year old T Rex w/ red blood cells
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/10021606.html#ixzz0VZChRzSL
New Chromosome Research Undermines Human-Chimp Similarity Claims
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2565348/posts
Science in the Bible
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/science.shtml
Starlight and Time by Russell Humpheys
The key to the starlight and age of the universe is ‘gravitational time dilation’.
Testimonies of Scientists Who Believe the Bible
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2761001/posts
You’re thinking of Michael Bellesiles. Here’s the story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arming_America
Thanks, mom, for the ping
Thanks, I read the entire article. Turns out it was the Bancroft Prize rather than Pulitzer Prize but in any case he did have to give it back.
My memory was good on everything else.
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