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Reminds me of Francesca Gino for data fabrication. She was also a best seller of sorts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Reminds me of Francesca Gino for data fabrication. She was also a best seller of sorts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino

dgacmu 16d ago
It should - one of the papers that Data Colada reported on about Gino was co-authored with Dan Ariely: https://datacolada.org/98 https://datacolada.org/98
- khy 16d ago
  She had sued Data Colada, I believe about that post. Seems like it got dismissed: https://www.science.org/content/article/honesty-researcher-s-lawsuit-against-data-sleuths-dismissed https://www.science.org/content/article/honesty-researcher-s...
  - hermitcrab 16d ago
    Kudos to Data Colada for sticking to their guns and not being cowed by that law suit. More power to them.
  - rdtsc 16d ago
    Oh wow. From your link > The fallout from the saga is likely to continue. Simonsohn and several of Gino’s co-authors last year launched a project to assess the reliability of her past papers. So far, this has led to a further retraction in February and a correction in July. Science reported in April that Gino also appeared to have plagiarized passages of text in some of her publications. It’s also hilarious how the judge let her continue the suit against Harvard. Like “hey I plagiarized fine, but you focused on my plagiarism more than others’ that not fair”. Even as more retractions due to plagiarism kept coming…
    - hojofpoj 16d ago
      I think we've seen recently that it is a dark kind of funny. When your standards for catching fraud are as low as top academia, and expectations might be beyond the probable without it, it creates a conundrum when someone with a prejudice starts to pick targets to actually investigate.
fn-mote 16d ago
For your amusement, from the post: > a week after Francesca Gino sued us for $25 million […]
- onemoresoop 16d ago
  That wasn’t successful but she also sued Harvard and won
  - mannykannot 15d ago
    IANAL, but it seems the suit against Harvard is still in progress, as far as I can tell: Harvard is seeking a summary judgement, and on August 5 the judge granted Gino's request to file "a renewed Statement of Additional Material Facts that complies with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Court's Standing Order, including the requirements governing format and organization" [1] with 14 days to reply and 14 days thereafter for Harvard to respond in turn. It looks like Gino's team filed the former on August 26 [2]. From the Introduction, the gist of this statement seems (to me) to be that Harvard's finding of grave misconduct cannot simply be taken as being correct, and so the issue should be put to a jury. Harvard has counter-sued, apparently alleging that Gino had altered and backdated an Excel file presented as evidence that Harvard's investigation had used the wrong data - a claim which which she, of course, denies. A year ago, the judge denied Data Colada's request for Gino to reimburse their legal fees after the dismissal of the case against them, which strikes me as unfortunate. [1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/gino-v-harvard-university/?page=2 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/gino-v-harvard... [2] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/258/gino-v-president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/258/gino-v-pre...
zx8080 16d ago
Harvard, nice.

Reminds me of Francesca Gino for data fabrication. She was also a best seller of sorts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino

dgacmu 16d ago

It should - one of the papers that Data Colada reported on about Gino was co-authored with Dan Ariely: https://datacolada.org/98 https://datacolada.org/98

khy 16d ago
She had sued Data Colada, I believe about that post. Seems like it got dismissed: https://www.science.org/content/article/honesty-researcher-s-lawsuit-against-data-sleuths-dismissed https://www.science.org/content/article/honesty-researcher-s...
- hermitcrab 16d ago
  Kudos to Data Colada for sticking to their guns and not being cowed by that law suit. More power to them.
- rdtsc 16d ago
  Oh wow. From your link > The fallout from the saga is likely to continue. Simonsohn and several of Gino’s co-authors last year launched a project to assess the reliability of her past papers. So far, this has led to a further retraction in February and a correction in July. Science reported in April that Gino also appeared to have plagiarized passages of text in some of her publications. It’s also hilarious how the judge let her continue the suit against Harvard. Like “hey I plagiarized fine, but you focused on my plagiarism more than others’ that not fair”. Even as more retractions due to plagiarism kept coming…
  - hojofpoj 16d ago
    I think we've seen recently that it is a dark kind of funny. When your standards for catching fraud are as low as top academia, and expectations might be beyond the probable without it, it creates a conundrum when someone with a prejudice starts to pick targets to actually investigate.

fn-mote 16d ago

For your amusement, from the post: > a week after Francesca Gino sued us for $25 million […]

onemoresoop 16d ago
That wasn’t successful but she also sued Harvard and won
- mannykannot 15d ago
  IANAL, but it seems the suit against Harvard is still in progress, as far as I can tell: Harvard is seeking a summary judgement, and on August 5 the judge granted Gino's request to file "a renewed Statement of Additional Material Facts that complies with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Court's Standing Order, including the requirements governing format and organization" [1] with 14 days to reply and 14 days thereafter for Harvard to respond in turn. It looks like Gino's team filed the former on August 26 [2]. From the Introduction, the gist of this statement seems (to me) to be that Harvard's finding of grave misconduct cannot simply be taken as being correct, and so the issue should be put to a jury. Harvard has counter-sued, apparently alleging that Gino had altered and backdated an Excel file presented as evidence that Harvard's investigation had used the wrong data - a claim which which she, of course, denies. A year ago, the judge denied Data Colada's request for Gino to reimburse their legal fees after the dismissal of the case against them, which strikes me as unfortunate. [1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/gino-v-harvard-university/?page=2 https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/gino-v-harvard... [2] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/258/gino-v-president-and-fellows-of-harvard-college/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67659904/258/gino-v-pre...

zx8080 16d ago

Harvard, nice.