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It's kinda amazing that Wansink has so much reach when his work has been the subject of an upsetting amount of retractions: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/12/

by tahw 9y ago

It's kinda amazing that Wansink has so much reach when his work has been the subject of an upsetting amount of retractions: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/12/28/another-retraction-appear-cornell-food-scientist-brian-wansink/ https://retractionwatch.com/2017/12/28/another-retraction-ap...

llimllib 9y ago
> It's kinda amazing that Wansink has so much reach it's kind of amazing that he has a job
- pjc50 9y ago
  Research metrics measure quantity, not quality :(
  - conistonwater 9y ago
    I don't see how that works, retractions hurt quantity too, don't they?
    - Erlangolem 9y ago
      In the same way that correcting a headline seems to hurt media.
    - coldtea 9y ago
      Nope, the publicity is still there.
- cornholio 9y ago
  > it's kind of amazing that he has a job No less than as head of a research lab at Cornell, in one of the top 10 applied economics schools in the world.
- intended 9y ago
  I dont know, that article linked says this- >...the inaccuracies stemmed primarily from a statistical and reporting/formatting error that led to further inaccuracies. >The review found that there was no intended deception or evidence of deliberate misconduct, and that the significance of the results and discussion in the article would not change because of the errors. >However, since the number of errors is too voluminous to be executed by issuing a correction statement, the journal is withdrawing the article and will republish it as a corrected version in a subsequent issue, and will utilize the same DOI as the originally published version of the article. The authors agree with this decision. This is good/ Not bad?
darkerside 9y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/16/mindless-eating-brian-wansink-is-there-something-rotten-behind-the-research https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/1... Even his poster child Bottomless Bowls study is now under dispute. Something rotten indeed.
vonmoltke 9y ago
His most recent was posted to Retraction Watch Monday: https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/19/caught-our-notice-retraction-eight-as-errors-in-wansink-paper-are-too-voluminous-for-a-correction/ https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/19/caught-our-notice-ret...

by tahw 9y ago

llimllib 9y ago

> It's kinda amazing that Wansink has so much reach it's kind of amazing that he has a job

pjc50 9y ago
Research metrics measure quantity, not quality :(
- conistonwater 9y ago
  I don't see how that works, retractions hurt quantity too, don't they?
  - Erlangolem 9y ago
    In the same way that correcting a headline seems to hurt media.
  - coldtea 9y ago
    Nope, the publicity is still there.
cornholio 9y ago
> it's kind of amazing that he has a job No less than as head of a research lab at Cornell, in one of the top 10 applied economics schools in the world.
intended 9y ago
I dont know, that article linked says this- >...the inaccuracies stemmed primarily from a statistical and reporting/formatting error that led to further inaccuracies. >The review found that there was no intended deception or evidence of deliberate misconduct, and that the significance of the results and discussion in the article would not change because of the errors. >However, since the number of errors is too voluminous to be executed by issuing a correction statement, the journal is withdrawing the article and will republish it as a corrected version in a subsequent issue, and will utilize the same DOI as the originally published version of the article. The authors agree with this decision. This is good/ Not bad?

darkerside 9y ago

https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/16/mindless-eating-brian-wansink-is-there-something-rotten-behind-the-research https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2018/feb/1... Even his poster child Bottomless Bowls study is now under dispute. Something rotten indeed.

vonmoltke 9y ago

His most recent was posted to Retraction Watch Monday: https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/19/caught-our-notice-retraction-eight-as-errors-in-wansink-paper-are-too-voluminous-for-a-correction/ https://retractionwatch.com/2018/03/19/caught-our-notice-ret...