Diederik Stapel, un psychosociologue néerlandais, a commis une audacieuse fraude académique en réalisant des études visant à dire au monde ce qu’il voulait entendre sur la nature humaine.

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Diederik Stapel – Koos Breukel for The New York Times

By  YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE, The New-York Times

“But the scientific misconduct that has come to light in recent years suggests at the very least that the number of bad actors in science isn’t as insignificant as many would like to believe. (…)

What the public didn’t realize, he said, was that academic science, too, was becoming a business. “There are scarce resources, you need grants, you need money, there is competition,” he said. “Normal people go to the edge to get that money. Science is of course about discovery, about digging to discover the truth. But it is also communication, persuasion, marketing.
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A blog called Retraction Watch publishes a steady stream of posts about papers being retracted by journals because of allegations or evidence of misconduct.