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Re:Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrasti... by fn-mote on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:49PM (#49517014)
> Do you think a potential bad actor would change their behavior

What is the appropriate way to help a righteous but underpaid lab assistant find the guts to call out a process as unethical and insist that the boss’s claim that the IRB has approved it is bogus?

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Re:Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrasti... by bluGill on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:02PM (#49517116)
The most important thing is they know how to report issues and have assurance that reports will not hurt them. If you can show other reports were acted on and the reporter not harmed that helps.

It also helps to always have more than one person who could call so they compete with each other to be first because they don't want to be the one seen as an accompanist to fraud.

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