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onemoresoop 4 hours ago

Reminds me of Francesca Gino for data fabrication. She was also a best seller of sorts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gino

dgacmu 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

khy 4 hours ago | parent [-]

She had sued Data Colada, I believe about that post. Seems like it got dismissed: https://www.science.org/content/article/honesty-researcher-s...

rdtsc 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

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…

fn-mote 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For your amusement, from the post:

> a week after Francesca Gino sued us for $25 million […]

onemoresoop 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That wasn’t successful but she also sued Harvard and won