Scientific fraud – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

A Harvard dishonesty researcher was accused of fraud. Her defense is troubling

Last summer, I wrote about Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino, a famous “dishonesty researcher” who was suspended from Harvard after it was revealed that someone had manipulated the data in four papers she co-authored over the course of a decade. In response, Gino — who has maintained her innocence — sued Harvard and the bloggers who first published the allegations, claiming she’d been defamed. I’ve written about how her lawsuit will have negative consequences for the scientific community, stifling critics and making it even less likely that research fraud, when it happens, will come to light. ….[READ]