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☆ Disgraced Harvard professor Francesca Gino's $25 million lawsuit will scare researchers away from calling out fraud, scholars fear
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Francesca Gino is suing Harvard and bloggers who accused her of data fraud for $25 million. Francesca Gino is suing Harvard and the bloggers who accused her of data fraud in a $25 million lawsuit. The Harvard professor claims they "worked together to destroy my career and reputation." In the June blog posts, Data Colada reported on a series of anomalies in Gino's data. Some worry the lawsuit will make exposing data fraud even more difficultGino is not the first high-profile professor that Data Colada has accused of unethical behavior.

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☆ Harvard professor Francesca Gino was accused of faking data. Now her million-dollar empire is crumbling — and scholars are eyeing who's next.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

"We believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data," the Data Colada professors wrote. Data Colada found that the raw data showed clear anomalies, such as a distribution infinitely more likely to be produced by a random-number generator than actual people. Soon after, Data Colada ran an article alleging that Gino tampered with data in at least one of her honesty-pledge experiments. A post on Data Colada or a tweet from Brown is like a bomb going off in the behavioral-science world. Others who attempted to build on Gino's studies are grappling with having wasted time, money, and energy.

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