Under Biden administration, while the entire state machinery has gone rogue and the country has already turned into a Banana Republic, scholars from America’s prestigious institutions such as Harvard University are also facing specific allegations of fabrication and fraud.
According to media reports, Francesca Gino, a behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School who is considered to be one of the top scholars on honesty has been accused of fabricating data in multiple studies, reports say.
Three peers in behavioral science at the data investigation blog Data Colada said they found evidence of bogus data in four of Gino’s studies, the Harvard Crimson reported. The peers said they “believe that many more Gino-authored papers contain fake data”.
One of the papers called into question, published in 2012, asserts that people are more likely to be honest when filling out tax and insurance forms if they are asked to attest to the truth of their statements at the top of the form rather than the bottom.
The paper already had been retracted because of fraudulent data by another of its co-authors. But Gino’s contribution to the paper is now in doubt as well, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education, which noted that Gino has published 135 articles since 2007.
“That’s right: Two different people independently faked data for two different studies in a paper about dishonesty”, write Uri Simonsohn, Joseph Simmons, and Leif Nelson in their Data Colada post.
Gino is now on administrative leave and has not commented on the controversy. Nor has Harvard Business School.
The controversy has rocked the academic world of behavioral science because Gino has “so many collaborators, so many articles, (and) is really a leading scholar in the field”, says Maurice Schweitzer at the Wharton School.
Schweitzer said he is now going over eight studies he co-authored with Gino, and other scholars in the field are doing the same.
What does this mean?
In the United States, now-a-days people talk about fake news, deep state, the swamp etcetera. They are also talking about US President Joe Biden’s direct involvement in corruption, bribery and even money laundering, while international media is regularly publishing reports on Hunter Biden’s direct involvement with convicted terrorists and terror organization. They permeate deceit, distortion, evasion, fabrication, falsehood, fiction, and all the other words that follow alphabetically in the thesaurus. With such a disturbing scenario, what would be the future of the United States, as its still is considered as the most powerful nation in the world? What the world would say when they know, American politicians, policymakers and even the US president and his son are pimping their influence in exchange for cash to anyone – including terrorists?
