A high-profile expert on ethics and dishonesty is facing allegations of dishonesty in her own work and has taken administrative leave from Harvard Business School....
Honestly, I always look askance at 'big ideas' & 'exciting breakthroughs' from places like Harvard, I think the inflated expectations that come along with a career at 'prestige' institutions tend to exacerbate academic dishonesty.
These folks face a lot of unrealistic pressure to 'excel', and generally get the benefit of the doubt because people assume they're the best, while also being targeted by a bunch of shady business interests who want to leverage that position.
We're still grappling with all the disinformation about saturated fat that came out of Harvard in the 60's... I wonder how many people were sickened or killed by the trans fats in margarine and other 'healthier alternatives'.
For background: "The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today’s dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat."
Yep, I think the current 'publish or perish' pressures mentioned above lead to a lot of authorship issues, and generally have a negative impact on scientific advancement as a whole.
It seems to me, like most modern problems, money is at the root of this, with both big journals and the 'corporate capture' crowd incentivizing a quantity-over-quality approach to publication.
The big journals just want more to stuff to put behind their paywalls, and don't give a damn about the actual science. The corporate folks like sloppy work, because it helps them generate conveniently errant results, which let them astroturf scientific support for any profitable position, and confound any financially inconvenient findings.
On the whole, I think we're pretty much screwed until we find a way to break away from the capitalist incentives, and focus on research quality.
For nearly three years, Roscoe Rike has been picking up his hormone-replacement therapy prescriptions at the same Walgreens in Oakland without a hitch....
Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty (www.ft.com)
A high-profile expert on ethics and dishonesty is facing allegations of dishonesty in her own work and has taken administrative leave from Harvard Business School....
Walgreens pharmacist cites religion in denying meds to trans man (www.latimes.com)
For nearly three years, Roscoe Rike has been picking up his hormone-replacement therapy prescriptions at the same Walgreens in Oakland without a hitch....