The Mind of a Con Man

NYT ^ | April 26, 2013 | YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE

[Baynative]

Faking studies and data has been a long standing tactic of the liberal left. Now a highly acclaimed con-man of the left admits his fraud.

[Baynative]

Using social psychology to fake studies parallels the campaign of global warming.

This full article is a good look at the twisted mind of an academic liberal activist.

[TomGuy]

He was highly acclaimed because the results of his ‘studies’ were the results desired by the liberal leftists.

He was just sort of doing what professional polsters do. They get hired to write polls in such as way as to elicit desired results. Occasionally, they don’t get the desired results, so they are fed to the shredder.

[mjp]

Faking studies and data has been a long standing tactic of the liberal left. Now a highly acclaimed con-man of the left admits his fraud.

For postmodernist libtards,there is no universal objective truth. Their substitute is written or verbal statements that reflect only particular local stories told by various cultures.So, for them, if a story sounds like it should be true, and makes them feel good,then it is true.

[Sherman Logan]

He was convinced that his hypotheses were true, so when the actual results of testing didn’t prove his hypothesis, he invented data that did.

This is exactly the same thing cops, prosecutors and CSI types do when they invent evidence to convict someone they “know” is guilty.

[longfellow]

but the article is in the ny times, we can’t trust this article.

[Conservative4Ever]

Rats, thought Obama was coming clean.

[PGalt]

“Everything about socialism is sham and affectation.” - 23.11 Ch23 Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat

[KarlInOhio]

Using social psychology to fake studies parallels the campaign of global warming

In college I had a science teacher (probably a physics TA) who said many of the rules about record keeping, analysis of data and giving full descriptions of your experiments so they can be duplicated exist because scientists, instead of being innocent angels, will misinterpret data, create tests which don't actually test their hypotheses and just outright lie to pander to funders. The rules are there to make it easier to detect and expose the frauds and to keep those who might be tempted to fake experiments from doing it because they will eventually be caught.

When the global warmists refused to turn over raw data and data analysis methods I knew they were cheating.

[Baynative]

In college we learned that if we needed a soft class to raise our GPA the thing to do was take a sociology course and simply regurgitate whatever the person teaching the class said. There were no objective tests everything was subjective so all you had to do was make it to at least half the classes and just listen to get a guaranteed B, or maybe even an A.

(the same was pretty much true with Psychology.

[PGalt]

In college we learned that if we needed a soft class to raise our GPA the thing to do was take a sociology course and simply regurgitate whatever the person teaching the class said. There were no objective tests everything was subjective so all you had to do was make it to at least half the classes and just listen to get a guaranteed B, or maybe even an A.

(the same was pretty much true with Psychology.

Boy you've got that right, Baynative! At Wayne State University (Detroit), I majored in psychology. The good news was that I had a double minor in chemistry and biology. :)