tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987857343213863458.post7910035023915485192..comments2012-05-25T04:12:21.907+02:00Comments on <center>Interactive and Cognitive Environments</center>: Please, tell us all what you think!Valerio Targonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15177311679214326514noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987857343213863458.post-58023320889270127052011-11-14T21:18:40.596+01:002011-11-14T21:18:40.596+01:00And now, Valerio, you need only change the names a...And now, Valerio, you need only change the names and license the film rights... see you in Hollywood!!jnabrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18056163412967927114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987857343213863458.post-86930527609892030652011-11-09T23:51:56.774+01:002011-11-09T23:51:56.774+01:00What happened with Prof. Stapel could well inspire...What happened with Prof. Stapel could well inspire some piece of fiction. Imagine his moral fight when coming to the decision of first forging his data. On the other side, there were of course pressure from supervisors, feelings of inadeguacy and - maybe - a tempter. And then he would silently dive in the misconduct again and again and not hesitate even when abusing of his colleauges' trust. At the dramatic peak, he could use at worst his (undeserved) power to contrast those that in order to defend the truth would have him unmasked. And only last month the tragic character was overwhelmed by the scandal.<br /><br />Moral would be: once you experience that you can cheat with no consequences, it is an easy way down.Valerio Targonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177311679214326514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987857343213863458.post-78808330827034862892011-11-04T17:48:29.206+01:002011-11-04T17:48:29.206+01:00Thanks for the comment, Chris, and welcome to our ...Thanks for the comment, Chris, and welcome to our blog.<br />While appreciate your opinion, I can't help but think that the co-authors and especially the PhD students who worked with Professor Stapel must have taken the work very seriously. I've never met anyone who didn't think their PhD was important... at least at some stage.<br />I agree that the folks at Science, and a few other places going back a decade and a half, might just be thinking about asking their submitters to include raw data, or asking their reviewers to validate data sets as well as methodology.<br />It seems as though there have been complaints in the past. I'd like to know what happened to those complainants, and what happened to the people who dismissed their concerns.jnabrownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18056163412967927114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6987857343213863458.post-45741118331172984562011-11-04T05:14:09.333+01:002011-11-04T05:14:09.333+01:00Someone who can get away with publishing falsified...Someone who can get away with publishing falsified data for years must be working on topics which are simply not of much import. If they were interesting and important, other people would have made a more serious attempt to test them and the fraud would have been discovered sooner. I do remember the paper about increased discrimination against blacks in the presence of rubbish - but honestly, publishing such a paper is a failure of editorial policy at the journal Science - and this is not an isolated event. Actually if the scientific community scrutinizes psychology experiments more carefully now, this might induce psychologists to design better experiments. That would not be a bad outcome.chrisr2d2https://www.blogger.com/profile/13188113321625183719noreply@blogger.com