Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

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Probably not — the incentives are too strong. But a few reformers are trying. We check in on their progress, in an update to an episode originally published last year. (Part 2 of 2)

SOURCES:
- Max Bazerman, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School.
- Leif Nelson, professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.
- Brian Nosek, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and executive director at the Center for Open Science.
- Ivan Oransky, distinguished journalist-in-residence at New York University, editor-in-chief of The Transmitter, and co-founder of Retraction Watch.
- Joseph Simmons, professor of applied statistics and operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Uri Simonsohn, professor of behavioral science at Esade Business School.
- Simine Vazire, professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne and editor-in-chief of Psychological Science.

RESOURCES:
- "How a Scientific Dispute Spiralled Into a Defamation Lawsuit," by Gideon Lewis-Kraus (The New Yorker, 2024).
- "The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers," by Noam Scheiber (The New York Times, 2023).
- "They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?" by Gideon Lewis-Kraus (The New Yorker, 2023).
- "Evolving Patterns of Extremely Productive Publishing Behavior Across Science," by John P.A. Ioannidis, Thomas A. Collins, and Jeroen Baas (bioRxiv, 2023).
- "Hindawi Reveals Process for Retracting More Than 8,000 Paper Mill Articles," (Retraction Watch, 2023).
- "Exclusive: Russian Site Says It Has Brokered Authorships for More Than 10,000 Researchers," (Retraction Watch, 2019).
- "How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data," by Daniele Fanelli (PLOS One, 2009).
- Lifecycle Journal.

EXTRAS:
- "Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
- "Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1," by Freakonomics Radio (2012).

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