An award-winning Harvard Business School professor and researcher spent years exploring the reasons people lie and cheat. A trio of behavioral scientists examining a handful of her academic papers concluded her own findings were drawn from falsified data.
With so much of our culture already infected, science was bound to eventually be corrupted by diversity, inclusion and equity. Even before DIE ideology, incentives to get grant funding, published or notoriety caused some scientists to take shortcuts or use shoddy techniques.
Another problem is that scientists don’t or can’t always take the time to be scientifically rigorous. Noted physicist, Richard Feynman discussed this in his fascinating Cal Tech Commencement Address.
Simmons and his two colleagues are among a growing number of scientists in various fields around the world who moonlight as data detectives, sifting through studies published in scholarly journals for evidence of fraud.
It’s not surprising that scientific integrity is being defended by enthusiastic volunteers, rather than through governmental or institutional investigations.
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