Dutch Psychologist Faked Data In At Least 30 Scientific Papers

Attila Dimedici writes "A professor at Tilburg University has been caught using fake data in over 30 scientific papers. Diederik Stapel's latest paper claimed that eating meat made people anti-social and selfish. Other academics were skeptical of his findings and raised doubts about his research. Upon investigation it was discovered that he had invented the data he used in many of his papers and there is a question as to whether or not he used faked data in all of his published work."

Comments

Re:All in the name of science

[tmosley]

Only if members of the field don't follow the scientific method while conducting their research.

For example, if they had started castigating anyone who disagreed with these studies, or thought the methods were problematic, or that the data was an outright fraud "deniers", and then conspired to deny publication to anyone who didn't accept the results of the study as "The Truth (tm)", then you could say that the field is not a science.

Re:But, but, but

[Dishevel]

Can we please for the love of God and the Internet (With both all things are made possible.) have a real internet standard SarcMark?
How can we live with ourselves?
Thousands of innocent stupid people and those who can not take the time to comprehend before posting are being ridiculed every day.
I think instead of what all the others are saying, Just so it is not missed, We should bring back in all forums, blogs and comments ....

The Blink Tag

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