The LaCour data faking scandal has officially gone viral. Googling “LaCour scandal” recently produced 230,000 hits. While serious soul-searching needs to take place at academic journals — or more accurately, needs to continue to take place at academic journals, because…
Read MoreThe blogsite Political Science Replication summarizes the recent “scandal” in which a graduate student at UCLA (Michael LaCour) is accused of fabricating data for an article published in Science magazine, leading to its retraction. The summary includes a description of…
Read MoreFROM THE ARTICLE: “A political scientist on Tuesday said he was retracting a paper he’d co-authored — one with wide influence on how campaigns can change public opinion — when faced with evidence that the paper’s central finding was based…
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