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  • Dutch Social Psychologist Found to Have Faked Data [Faker Had Even Case Studied Another Faker]

    11/03/2011 10:37:09 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 2 replies
    Telegrahph.co.uk ^ | 12:27AM GMT 04 Nov 2011 | Telegraph
    A prominent Dutch social psychologist who once claimed to have shown that the very act of thinking about eating meat makes people behave more selfishly has been found to have faked data throughout much of his career. In one of the worst cases of scientific fraud on record in the Netherlands, a review committee made up of some of the country's top scientists has found that University of Tilburg Prof. Diederik Stapel systematically falsified data to achieve the results he wanted. The university has fired the 45-year-old professor and plans to file fraud charges against him, university spokesman Walther Verhoeven...