Investigators Discover 50th Fake Study By Disgraced Dutch Psychologist
Pseudoscience strikes again Wikimedia CommonsThe journal Social Psychology retracts yet another paper by Diederik Stapel, citing falsified and manipulated data. The retraction count for former psychology professor Diederik Stapel just hit 50: Social Psychology is revoking a 2008 paper by the Dutch researcher after an investigation found "strong indications" that the results had been manipulated and faked. Stapel, who has had 49 other papers retracted since December 2011, said he wasn't sure whether the study was fraudulent or not. Suppose it's hard to keep count! All of Stapel's 130 articles and 24 book chapters are under investigation by his former employer, Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The university suspended him in September 2011 and later discovered that, in addition to making up data, Stapel had allowed many of his students to graduate without ever completing an experiment. The co-author of the 2008 paper, titled "The impact of comprehension versus self-enhancement...