Dutch Psychology Professor Suspended for Academic Dishonesty

Data falsification worse than plagiarism

posted about 13 years ago

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/post/diederik-stapel-the-lying-dutchman/2011/11/01/gIQA86XOdM_blog.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=massive-fraud-uncovered-in-work

What are people's thoughts on this? I personally am appalled.

You can blame the peer-review system for not catching it. But can we design a peer-review system that catches intentional falsifying of data?

I'd be interested in knowing how many publications were tainted by his false data.

While plagiarism is an awful thing, I think falsification of research data is worse.

(edited about 13 years ago)

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posted	November 2, 2011
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