Another left-wing professor caught falsifying data

by Clifford F. Thies

"it's important to me to underline that the mistakes I made weren't for selfish reasons."

A Dutch social psychologist got busted when three of his grad students became suspicious of the data he was feeding them, and reported the matter to the Dean of the school.

The professor had, over the years, published one after another article "proving" notions with which left-wing intellectuals entertain themselves. Things like eating meat leads to violence.

Among the consequences, the university will now require that the raw data be archived for studies and be made available to others upon request. Such a practice has been rapidly becoming standard in academic research, in part because of the discovery of falsification of data in climate research.

Years ago, it might not have been practical to archive raw data. For example, in the age where data existed in the holes punched into cards, or on rolls of magnetic film, or on magnetic disks, it was costly to store, index and retrieve data. A top of the line computer of forty years ago, such as an IBM 360 or a Digital minicomputer
ranged in cost from a year's salary upward, required a special, environmentally-controlled room, and had less computing power than today's hand-held devices.

But today, massive data sets can be easily stored. Academic journals should require that the data be provided as a condition for publication, and it should be expected that researches should themselves maintain their data files for a reasonable period of time.

Oh, and this line of left-wing professors that I wasn't selfish, I did it for the common good, it simply repulsive. The basis for science is inquiry, to question. To claim to pre-know the answer is dogmatic and anti-science. It believe that you pre-know the answer is the very pinnacle of selfishness.

Source: UKTelegraph