In summer 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor, Francesca Gino, over charges of research misconduct.
By coincidence, one of her affected papers also had some funny-looking data from a *different* B-school superstar, Dan Ariely... (1/3)
Daniel Engber
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- Daniel Kahneman, our greatest scientist of mistakes, has died. After drafting the manuscript for Thinking, Fast and Slow, he paid colleagues to provide anonymous advice on whether to abandon it.
- Replying to @danengberThey meant to contain the fallout from the scandal and preserve their reputations. But their audit has done just the opposite. My story for The Atlantic on the spreading crisis in elite business academia:
- The Strongest Evidence Yet That a Scientist Started the Pandemic
- Among the many things that jump out as one reads through these behind-the-scenes discussions: the scientists clearly prefer a natural origin, as in, that's the reality they'd rather discover to be true...There can be no doubt the Proximal Origin authors consciously and inappropriately downplayed the #COVID19 research-related origin hypothesis and coordinated efforts manipulating media coverage. They also interacted like noxious frat boys. No longer private Slack excerpts below.
- I wrote about Daniel Kahneman, who really loved to be wrong.
- Replying to @danengber“This is some kind of mad, fraudulent unicorn,” said @jamesheathers at the time. But amazingly, all of that was just *part one* of an even bigger scandal. After the Gino allegations were made public, her peers began a large-scale audit of their field... (2/3)
- ✴️✴️Look at this response from the Proximal Origin authors to a Nature reviewer on Feb 21, 2020. They simply could not be more clear about the dangers of collapsing all "lab leak" hypotheses into one:
- This scoop from @KatherineJWu has multiple mind-blowing details. Aside from providing extraordinary evidence for an animal origin for COVID-- the most convincing yet -- it raises the question of who posted these sequences, and why now... theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
- Replying to @danengberThis preference is so blatant and so much taken for granted throughout all the communications that it's hard to focus on why it exists and whether it's appropriate.
- Daniel Kahneman showed that standard job interviews are completely pointless. Then he interviewed me, and it was weird:
- I just can't get over how quickly scientific methods change. When I was in grad school (and it wasn't *that* long ago) we were taught to put the real data in Cambria and the fake data in Calibri. npr.org/2023/07/27/119…





