Frequent Retraction Watch fliers rack them up: Stapel hits 51, Lichtenthaler...
Quick updates on work by two people whose names appear frequently on Retraction Watch: Diederik Stapel and Ulrich Lichtenthaler. Last month, we reported on the 50th retraction for Stapel. Here’s number...
View Article“Unfinished business”: Diederik Stapel retraction count rises to 53
Two more papers by Diederik Stapel — who was profiled by The New York Times Magazine this weekend — have been retracted, both in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The notice for “Hardly...
View ArticleDiederik Stapel settles with Dutch prosecutors, won’t face jail time
Diederik Stapel, the former Tilburg University psychology professor who has retracted 53 papers because he made up the data, has settled with Dutch prosecutors, who began a criminal probe of his case...
View ArticleMeasure by measure: Diederik Stapel count rises again, to 54
Diederik Stapel is up to 54 retractions. Here’s the notice from Self and Identity: Schwinghammer, S. A., & Stapel, D. A. (2011). Measure by measure: When implicit and explicit social comparison...
View ArticleDiederik Stapel speaks
Diederik Stapel, the social psychologist who has now retracted 54 papers, recently spoke as part of the TEDx Braintrain, which took place on a trip from Maastricht to Amsterdam. Among other things, he...
View ArticleWeekend reads: Stapel as an object lesson, peer review’s flaws, and salami...
It’s been another busy week at Retraction Watch. Here’s a sampling of scientific publishing and misconduct news from around the web: In a paper in the journal Synesis, John Budd, who has done important...
View ArticleLanguage of a liar named Stapel: Can word choice be used to identify...
A pair of Cornell researchers have analyzed the works of fraudster Diederik Stapel and found linguistic tics that stand out in his fabricated articles. David Markowitz and Jeffrey Hancock looked at 49...
View ArticleAnother retraction for Diederik Stapel, this one from Dutch drama festival on...
Here’s a case of art imitating science. The organizers of a Dutch drama festival have put a halt to a play about the disgraced social psychologist Diederik Stapel, prompting protests from the authors...
View ArticleCurtain up on second act for Dutch fraudster Stapel: College teacher
Diederik Stapel, the Dutch social psychologist and admitted data fabricator — and owner of 54 retraction notices — is now teaching at a college in the town of Tilburg. According to Omroep Brabant,...
View ArticleDiederik Stapel loses teaching post, admits he was sockpuppeting on...
Diederik Stapel’s reinvention as a teacher at a college in the Netherlands has proven to be short-lived. According to the NRC Handelsblad, Stapel resigned from the job at Fontys in solidarity with...
View ArticleDiederik Stapel ups count to 55 retractions
Dutch social psychologist and well-known fraudster Diederik Stapel is up to 55 retractions. He remains secure in his spot at #4 on our leaderboard. The “fraudulent” Social Cognition article found,...
View ArticleDiederik Stapel retraction count updated to 57
We’ve learned about two more retractions we missed for Diederick Stapel, the Dutch social psychology researcher who has now racked up a total of 57 retractions by our count. Both retractions were...
View ArticleDiederik Stapel now has 58 retractions
Social psychologist Diederik Stapel has notched his 58th retraction, after admitting he fabricated data in yet another article. He’s holding onto his 4th place spot on our leaderboard. This latest...
View ArticleHe’s back: Data faker Diederik Stapel will support research at vocational...
Diederik Stapel, the social psychology researcher who has had 58 papers retracted after admitting that he made up the data, has a new job: helping other researchers. Stapel, according to BN DeStem (via...
View ArticleNo academic post for fraudster Diederik Stapel, after all
Recently, we reported that social psychologist and renowned data faker Diederik Stapel had found himself a new gig supporting research at a vocational university in the Netherlands — but it appears...
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