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> she’s a coward and seeking closure by unburdening herself without doing the hard thing and being fully transparent about what happened. I don’t see how one c
by Someone 3y ago
> she’s a coward and seeking closure by unburdening herself without doing the hard thing and being fully transparent about what happened.
I don’t see how one can draw that conclusion from reading one text she wrote. She can easily have written other articles about the case.
This article isn’t about the fraud or about its correction, but about her soul-searching years later.
I also think the article indicates she has worked on being transparent. She reported the case to the university integrity officer and hired a scientist to check the data.
She also writes “I had barely escaped the shame of having to retract a published article”, which I interpret (that “escaped” makes it a bit ambiguous to me; if that “barely” hadn’t been there I would interpret it as there not being a retraction) as that an article got retracted.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agocowardice is behavior, her behavior is that of a coward. Just as greed got her there, cowardice keeps her there.
- Someone 3y ago> cowardice is behavior, her behavior is that of a coward. Again: I don’t see how one can draw that conclusion from this one article. Also, IMO, there’s a huge difference between “behaving like a Foo” and “being a Foo”. The former leaves open that they change, the latter doesn’t. Compare “(s)he killed somebody” with “(s)he’s a killer”. Who do you think can deserve parole?
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agowhen "foo" has a negative connotation, no one is going to "be a Foo" they will instead "behave like a Foo". It doesn't fucking matter, people will make the judgement _for_ them.
- achileas 3y agoThe article hadn’t been published (it says so in the article), she escaped retraction because it came up before it was published. In fact it reads as if it hadn’t even been submitted yet and was still being written.