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by usednet 1070 days ago
Could somebody provide me some links to other recent scandals in academia/research? Very interested.
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I forget the guys name (he’s German iirc), but a very impactful one was at Bell Labs in the 00’s. STEM PhD programs now all have a research ethics component because of him. While you can’t teach someone to be ethical, it at least hammers home how many people you are defrauding by falsifying data, which includes everyone from your funding organizations to the lowly PhD students whose advisors are making them iterate on your study and don’t understand why, after three years, it still isn’t working.
Check out the datacolada web site. https://datacolada.org/
Retraction Watch, maybe?

https://retractionwatch.com/