In 2011, Diederik Stapel, a social psychologist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, was suspended from his post after he admitted fabricating data in dozens of studies. A university investigation reported significant anomalies in Stapel’s research data, including suspiciously large experimental effects and a lack of ‘outliers’ in the data. The investigation identified at least 55 papers that had been found to contain fabricated data and the same was true for many of the PhD theses Stapel had supervised.
ethics, fraud, replication
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