Monday, June 10, 2013
"Inside The Mind Of A Scientist Who Made Up More Than 50 Studies"
What is most disheartening is that, in cases like this, decisions may have been made, and consequences experienced, all based on phony data.
The next time you hear what a study says, you may want to think twice...
On the PopSci website, Francie Diep calls our attention to this:
"The 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. He even made up data for the graduate students he supervised. He would tell them he was doing their experiments for them, an unusual move, as many professors prefer to leave that tedium for their underlings."
