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Harvard wants academic celebrities. It's not enough to do solid work, you need awards, plaudits, research that punches through the noise, articles in the mainst
by monero-xmr 2y ago
Harvard wants academic celebrities. It's not enough to do solid work, you need awards, plaudits, research that punches through the noise, articles in the mainstream press, and so on. Harvard is a brand first and foremost. If what you want most in life is to be a tenured Harvard professor in your chosen field, you need to publish research that makes a big splash.
The most surefire way to do this was to simply commit fraud rather than conduct experiments and pray you get lucky and find an outlier result worthy of significant rewards. We are witnessing the fallout now as people no longer assume honesty and integrity, and begin to analyze the actual papers for accuracy.
- czl 2y agoIndeed. Another example of this is Forbes featuring outlier successful people on its front cover who have later turned out to be involved in criminal activities or scandals. (1) Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, who was once celebrated as a tech visionary but later convicted of fraud. (2) Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, who faced multiple fraud charges following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange.
- gnz11 2y agoForbes is just another junk brand looking to turn a profit. With Harvard and other higher education institutions there is the expectation that they are vehement proponents of scientific rigor.