Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts
Monday, May 20, 2024

The labor market for OnlyFans chatters

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 Here's a story by a professional writer and journalist, who appears to be a middle-aged dad, about his efforts to find and then master ...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Fraud in physics? Room temp superconductors, again

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  It should come as no surprise that it's not only social sciences that can be roiled by accusations of research misconduct . Here's...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Incentives and mis-incentives in science (Freakonomics part II)

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  Freakonomics has a second post on fraud in science, and you can listen or read the transcript here: Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? Two quo...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

"Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?" Freakonomics interviews Max Bazerman and others

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Below is the latest Freakonomics podcast (and transcript), on fraud in academia.  Those most in the headlines weren't available to be in...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Regulating research and research misconduct

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  Peer review is a clunky process that often misfires, but it helps to keep up the quality of published research. Much the same can be said ...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Symposium on Research Integrity: Replicability and outright malfeasance. November 24 in Berlin

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  Research integrity has been in the news lately, concerning low levels of replicability in some kinds of research, together with more inten...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Fake rhino horn

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When is it ok to fight one repugnant transaction with another?  The New York Times has a story of fighting the (repugnant) sales of rhinoce...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Someone is impersonating me on LinkedIn

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An alert MIT grad student received a LinkedIn request that appeared to be from me, except not quite, and was kind enough to let me know. (I...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Conference housing pirates--the (criminal) market for hotel rooms

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Here's a scam I hadn't encountered before. I will be speaking at a transplant conference in February, and last week my phone rang...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Cheating in China on (American) college admissions

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Inside Higher Ed has the story:  In China, No Choice But to Cheat? July 9, 2015  By Elizabeth Redden "EUGENE, Ore. ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Citation collaboration

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"Impact factors" have become important to journals, and efforts to manipulate them come to light from time to time. Here's a ...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Are behavioral results more likely to be exaggerated than biological results?

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That's the claim (reported in the blog Retraction Watch ) of "a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Someone was pretending to be me on Google+ (a story with a happy ending)

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The internet is home to a variety of scams, and some of them involve trying to manipulate Google search results. So I was surprised and dism...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Scientific misconduct: fraud, plagiarism and all that

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A good article on scientific fraud and plagiarism by Charles Gross in The Nation (of all places), focusing on the case of Marc Hauser, but l...
Monday, August 15, 2011

The winner's curse: auction activist receives prison term

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In 2008 I blogged about an environmental activist who disrupted an oil and gas auction by submitting some winning bids . Now he's been s...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Strategy-proofness and strategy sets: residency fraud in school choice

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When we speak of strategy-proofness in the context of school choice, we are most often speaking about whether it is safe for parents to reve...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Research misconduct in the marketplace for science

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Lately there have been a number of news stories about research misconduct of the "conventional" sort, involving scientists falsify...
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Monday, November 8, 2010

Incentives and erroneous research

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The Atlantic runs a profile of Dr. John Ioannidis, who studies bad science. He focuses on medicine, where the incentives are perhaps highest...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Cent mail: signalling that your email isn't spam

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Here's a new twist (from Yahoo! Research) on paying to send email as a barrier to spam: a 1 cent donation to charity for each email buys...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

House flipping fraud in Florida

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I received the following email from Eric Budish , the Chicago market designer: "I came across a neat investigative journalism feature o...
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