Retraction Watch adds further human interest to the Stapel scandal (in which Professor Stapel is being investigated on several front for fabricating research data): Do fraudsters, like bad pitchers or poker players, have “tells”? Diederik Stapel might. Last week we reported that Stapel, an internationally recognized social psychologist from The Netherlands, had been accused of fabricating his […]
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Stapel accused of folding/mutilating data
Professor Diederik Stapel, author of the study “Seeing one thing and doing another: Contrast effects in automatic behavior“, is accused of saying one thing but doing another, according to reports in the Dutch press and elsewhere. DutchNews.nl sums up: Tilburg professor faked data in at least 30 academic publications Tilburg and Groningen universities are to take legal action […]
Press release: Seen in a new light (Hamman)
This week’s Press Release of the Month was released more than a year ago. But it shines anew thanks to today’s news that the protagonist, Dr. William Hamman, turns out not to be a doctor (see the Associated Press report “Pilot duped AMA with fake M.D. claim“). Here’s the beginning of the press release: WMU […]
New Barney-like organism discovered
The authors (with one substitution) of the classic report “The Taxonomy of Barney” wrote a new report based on a sighting of a different creature. Here’s an excerpt: The Barney organism was supposed to be a dinosaur, one which had a profound affection for (and affection returned by) juvenile humans. [In 1995] The researchers proved […]