Comments on: The ethics of the ethics researcher

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:49:02 +0000

I listened to a Freakonomics podcast about this woman. (Ok, about academic fraud, but she was the star, in essence.) I was amazed to hear, at that time, that she’d been granted tenure, as she had already been credibly shown to have spearheaded multiple research “irregularities.”

By: JohnTyler

JohnTyler — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:48:47 +0000

Let’s see; Former Harvard president Claudine Gay was also accused of plagiarism but she did not get fired. She was just re-assigned to some sort of very lucrative teaching position there.
So why wasn’t she fired from Harvard?? Let me guess; because she is black and she is leftist, pro-Hamas.
But Francesca Gino is white, so it’s clear Harvard will aim to get her fired. Perhaps if she “comes out” as a male, she will save her job.

Check out what Harvard did to their famous black economist, Roland Freyer, who had the temerity, the cohones, to produce studies that shredded the the left wing dogma about why blacks do not excel academically. He was warned, unofficially of course, that he should not publish his findings because it gave the “wrong” message.

He was suspended from Harvard for two years, supposedly for inappropriate comments he made to some females at Harvard, but there is some controversy about that.
Safe to say, that if Freyer were white, he would no longer be at Harvard.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:14:44 +0000

“behavioral science” is pretty close to fog herding.

U-Mich had an experiment some years ago. Get male students to sign up for an experiment. When they arrive, act as if they’d screwed up the date and time and be really annoying. To the extent that, on the way out, a big guy gives them the shoulder.
STOP
Now we’re going to do a blood study. Turns out guys from the South spiked their adrenalin and testosterone higher than the guys from the North, and it lasted longer.
So….

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:05:55 +0000

The twist here is that her specialty is honesty and ethics:

Am I the only one that notices that this story has a strong resemblance to a page from the standard Democrat politician’s playbook? Posture as a paragon of ethics and integrity, while being entirely crooked.

I’m not surprised that she thought she could get away with the scam, especially at Harvard. But then again, Harvard is now under the Trump microscope. Would she have gotten away with this if Trump hadn’t been elected?

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 31 May 2025 16:50:37 +0000

Life in Montana is so desirable that neither university hires faculty who have worked their way up through a genuinely strong scholastic system. Rather each university hires according to genetic code(children of great wealth) and/or they hire from familites who have made large “donations” to the university. That is easy/peasy to track. Of course, during the last 15 + years some of the daughters of great wealth who are already tenured insist on hiring “deserving” women from withint the Democratic party. That is to say women who have been brought up in a feminist system that has taught them to do “dirty tricks”, or as they like to say “show their strength qualifications for leadership”. In other words the daughters of great wealth hire female flunkies (flunkettes?) What used to be just local wealth getting lifetime jobs for their own kids has now become a nationwide scramble among the wealthiest!

By: FOAF

FOAF — Sat, 31 May 2025 07:58:33 +0000

“But heck, if you look like Andie MacDowell in “Groundhog’s Day,” who’s complaining?”

If you look carefully huxley, Gino has rather oversized teeth not unlike AOC. There may be certain acts of pleasure you would rather not engage in with these allegedly attractive leftist women.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 31 May 2025 06:09:37 +0000

A few statistics:

* In 1940 less than 5% of Americans had degrees.
* Today more than 50% of Americans have degrees.

There’s nothing special about a college degree today. At best it gets your foot in the door.

If one wishes to parlay a degree into a university position today, it’s far more competitive and difficult.

If one wishes to parlay a degree into a job today, it’s not quite as hard, but still difficult.

A college degree doesn’t guarantee a path to success like it used to. Yet it is several times more expensive.

The university system is facing massive disruption. Yet it is so ossified I see little chance it will respond in a sensible, nimble fashion.

Academic scandals, like Gino’s, IMO are symptoms of a larger crisis in higher ed.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:47:45 +0000

Getting a position in any university is hard. When we would interview at the state university (not the university of state, the other one) all the applicants were from the Ivy League. And so that was a clue, as someone whose degree was going to say State University and not Harvard, that a permanent career in academia might not be in the cards. But there’s lots of ways to make a living, you don’t have to imprison yourself in your expectations.

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:46:12 +0000

I assume our friend, Francesca Gino, had a long history of cheating and shortcuts.

Today’s academia is a cutthroat game. The stakes are high and the competition is fiercer than fierce.
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Disgraced Harvard professor Francesca Gino was paid more than $1 million a year at the height of her career, it was revealed, even as she allegedly manipulated data in research papers about honesty.

Gino, a former Harvard Business School professor, once hailed as a rising star in behavioral science, was the fifth-highest paid employee at Harvard in both 2018 and 2019, according to records obtained by The Harvard Crimson.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14759137/Outrageous-salary-Harvard-dishonesty-professor-revealed-university-risks-losing-billions.html
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I like Data Colada and catching frauds in the rain…

–“RUPERT HOLMES – Escape (The Pina Colada Song) (1980)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAeI5KODLA

By: huxley

huxley — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:36:17 +0000

@Richard Aubrey: Wonder what her point was;

Getting a teaching position at Harvard is about the same order of difficulty as getting a starring role in a major Hollywood movie. Academia is extremely competitive at the Ivies.

Here’s the story of Amy Bishop, a Harvard-educated scientist, who was denied tenure at University of Alabama and committed a mass shooting at her biology department at the end of her last semester at UAH.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting

Harvard.

Hmm … is there a pattern emerging here?