This is such an excellent video about fakery in academia. The narrator is clear, organized, talks fast, hits many aspects of the problem. Some takeaways: once you've gotten a reputation in research, people trust you, use your research, create reality based on it. And if the researcher is then tempted to massage the data to get more notable results, they can get away with it, at least for a while, because it will take a lot of research by equally skilled people to catch the errors. The most ironic thing about this is that the dishonesty was perpetrated by people studying dishonesty.
Well, it is a study in the research culture. Even the vid narrator, though he knows this is very very bad, can't help being empathetic (toward the end).
This is such an excellent video about fakery in academia. The narrator is clear, organized, talks fast, hits many aspects of the problem. Some takeaways: once you've gotten a reputation in research, people trust you, use your research, create reality based on it. And if the researcher is then tempted to massage the data to get more notable results, they can get away with it, at least for a while, because it will take a lot of research by equally skilled people to catch the errors. The most ironic thing about this is that the dishonesty was perpetrated by people studying dishonesty.
Brings to mind fraudchicom. And his merry band of clotshotters.
Well, it is a study in the research culture. Even the vid narrator, though he knows this is very very bad, can't help being empathetic (toward the end).