Re:I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:51AM
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Yup, I was taught this as part of graduate school.
Nobody ever said it was fraud, they said things like they wouldn't share the data and I couldn't replicate.
In general, the incentives for shoddy science (get Nature papers or find a new career) tend to reward bad behaviour, and I just wasn't able to find something unexpected and pretend it had been my hypothesis all along (it's almost impossible to publish a social science paper where you disconfirm your major hypothesis).
Nobody ever said it was fraud, they said things like they wouldn't share the data and I couldn't replicate.
In general, the incentives for shoddy science (get Nature papers or find a new career) tend to reward bad behaviour, and I just wasn't able to find something unexpected and pretend it had been my hypothesis all along (it's almost impossible to publish a social science paper where you disconfirm your major hypothesis).