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Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if it is a Nobel prize winner like Jennifer Doudna?
Well the guy who invented lobotomy got one of those. Or the guy who invented microcredit. To not even venture in the peace nobel prizes area, where getting one is probably indicative of being evil.
I mean the Nobel committee gave the Peace prize to Kissinger. I’m not sure they’re a good bellwether for anything.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm at the point where if I see it in a TED talk I'm assuming it's a bullshit grifter
Even if it is a Nobel prize winner like Jennifer Doudna?
It's hard to generalize. The whole field of behavioural intelligence has lots of fake/unrepeatable studies.
Even Kahneman, who got a Economics Nobel has this issue:
https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well the guy who invented lobotomy got one of those. Or the guy who invented microcredit. To not even venture in the peace nobel prizes area, where getting one is probably indicative of being evil.
I mean the Nobel committee gave the Peace prize to Kissinger. I’m not sure they’re a good bellwether for anything.
Tom Lehrer famously retired when Kissinger got the peace prize declaring satire to be dead. The really funny one to me is they gave literature to Winston Churchill because they thought they probably couldn't give him peace, then when Kissinger came up they thought "Why not?"
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#65So what happens with these costs - surely the failed litigant should shoulder some if not all of the costs of defending this defamation claim?
To my (totally uninformed) eyes it looks like maybe this could count as a SLAPP suit [1], in which case there's a possbility for a counterclaim for legal costs. However, Massachusetts apparently has "much weaker anti-SLAPP laws" [2] (than California, in the context of the article)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
[2] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23841742/francesca-gino-d...
Re: Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation
#66So what happens with these costs - surely the failed litigant should shoulder some if not all of the costs of defending this defamation claim?
Often, no. There's a relevant specific fee-recovery mechanism [0] in some, not all, states, because this class of lawsuit acknowledged as being problematic, as being an effective way to silence 1A-protected speech. The deeper problem is that litigation is extraordinarily expensive in the US, and generically easy to abuse as an intimidation weapon—for rich entities to use against those who can't afford lawyers; or for fanatics to use against normal risk-averse people who don't want lawsuits–don't value whatever it is the fanatic is fanatic about, highly enough to go to court to argue it.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I saw that quote in the article but cannot find it in the ruling itself: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.259... It seems to be a quote from a London court ruling in 2010: https://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c1895
It's mentioned around page 30-31: > Instead, this is a case where the trial of ideas plays out in the pages of peer > reviewed journals, and the scientific public sits as the jury.” (cleaned up)); Underwager v. Salter, > 22 F.3d 730, 736 (7th Cir. 1994) (affirming summary judgment against defamation claims and > stating that “[s]cientific controversies must be settled by the methods of science rather than by > the me…
Thanks! I don’t know why my search didn’t find that.
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#68Re: Data sleuths who spotted research misconduct cleared of defamation
#69If only Prof. Gino had signed her papers at the beginning she would have been less inclined to falsify the data.
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#70I posted this a while back on here, but my wife works in Behavioural Science, and wrote this about it last year https://www.squarepeginsight.com/post/the-dark-side-of-behav...