Sure, it's of little interest to the toiling masses when a tenured academic is found to be a dishonest fraud. But in this case it's a major professor and researcher at prestigious Harvard Univ. with a million dollar salary. It took over four years to come to a conclusion but Francesca Gino was eventually fired for massaging her research data to reflect her conclusions.
current-affairs.org
No one could remember such an inglorius event ever occurring before in the nearly spotless history of the oldest university in the US.
Once again, academics that use mendacity to get grants are guilty of fraud, just as lying on a loan application or overstating the value of mortgaged property. If the grant money originated as federal funds it is a federal offense. The lady should be expecting, and others committing similar deeds, to spend some time in the big federal study hall, perhaps reading up on ethics.
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