On Thu, 21 May 2015 16:38:15 -0700, Stuart McKelvie wrote:
Dear Tipsters,
Last night, CBC's "As it Happens" broadcast a very interesting
interview with Dr. Green. At that point he said that the graduate
student had not admitted wrong doing. However, he said that the
was almost certain that data were fabricated.
You can listen here:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.3079544/researcher-retracts-landmark-same-sex-marriage-study-claims-co-author-fabricated-data-1.3080637
An article on the FiveThirtyEight website goes into more detail about
the circumstances surrounding the detection of the fraud and the
retraction; see:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/as-a-major-retraction-shows-were-all-vulnerable-to-faked-data/
A number of shows on MSNBC have brought up this topic yesterday
and the interested reader might want to check out the info there.
One interesting point made during one of the shows: the news media
loves to promote science stories with a "man bites dog" vibe which
most scientists would be skeptical. The mass media then makes a
big deal about inconsistencies in results or the occurrence of fraud
and appears to label all scientific research as "junk science".
Someone should do a study on how the mass media focuses and
promotes science stories in contrast to how scientists who are
knowledgeable
about the research areas focus and promote research and explanations.
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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