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PODCAST ALERT: “Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)”

Check out the following podcast on academic fraud from Freakonomics.com hosted by Stephen Dubner. Among other things, it provides fascinating details about the Francesca Gino fraud scandal, including interviews with Max Bazerman, one of Gino’s Harvard co-authors, and the Data…

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Raise Your Hand If You’ve Messed Up

[Excerpts taken from the article “When We’re Wrong, It’s Our Responsibility as Scientists to Say So” by  Ariella Kristal et al., published in Scientific American.] “What simple, costless interventions can we use to try to reduce tax fraud? As behavioral…

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The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: A Personal Example From the Authors?

[From the blog entitled “Oh, I hate it when work is criticized (or, in this case, fails in attempted replications) and then the original researchers don’t even consider the possibility that maybe in their original work they were inadvertently just…

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