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Fraud is considered rare, but maybe not actually that rare; hence the replication crisis.
by vermilingua 3y ago
Fraud is considered rare, but maybe not actually that rare; hence the replication crisis.
- PaulHoule 3y agoA lot of times it is not deliberate fraud just incompetence. There is the strange fact that the answer to precision QED calculations alway seemed to change when experimental results changed. One enduring lesson from a physics PhD is that a 50 page long calculation without unit tests is… wrong.
- nextos 3y agoMisrepresentation of data and selective reporting to fit particular agendas of the last author are quite common. I have been involved in a couple of projects where I was asked to misrepresent or misreport findings. Sadly, integrity offices will rarely conduct serious investigations, and won't conclude misconduct happened unless what was done was incredibly harmful. Professors are often too big to fail, they attract tons of grants and are politically entrenched.