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Daniel Engber

216 posts

Daniel Engber

@danengber

senior editor, The Atlantic

Joined August 2008

Daniel Engber
@danengber
Nov 19, 2024
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)
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Aug 2, 2023
Francesca Gino has filed a $25 million defamation lawsuit against Harvard University and the Data Colada bloggers (@uri_sohn , Leif Nelson, @jpsimmon). We've updated our story on her 2012 paper from this morning:
An Unsettling Hint at How Much Fraud Could Exist in Science
From theatlantic.com
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Mar 27, 2024
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.
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Nov 19, 2024
Replying to @danengber
They 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 Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
From theatlantic.com
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Jun 23, 2023
The Strongest Evidence Yet That a Scientist Started the Pandemic
Has COVID’s Patient Zero Finally Been Named?
From theatlantic.com
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Jul 21, 2023
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...
Jamie Metzl
@JamieMetzl
Jul 20, 2023
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.
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Nov 19, 2024
Replying to @danengber
gift link here:
theatlantic.com
The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Mar 28, 2024
I wrote about Daniel Kahneman, who really loved to be wrong.
theatlantic.com
Daniel Kahneman Wanted You to Realize How Wrong You Are
The late psychologist gave the world an extraordinary gift: admitting his mistakes.
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Nov 19, 2024
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)
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Jul 14, 2023
✴️✴️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:
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Mar 16, 2023
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…
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Jul 21, 2023
Replying to @danengber
This 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.
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Mar 28, 2024
Daniel Kahneman showed that standard job interviews are completely pointless. Then he interviewed me, and it was weird:
theatlantic.com
Daniel Kahneman Wanted You to Realize How Wrong You Are
The late psychologist gave the world an extraordinary gift: admitting his mistakes.
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Daniel Engber
@danengber
Jul 29, 2023
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…
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