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Diederik Stapel’s Audacious Academic Fraud

Diederik Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, perpetrated an audacious academic fraud by making up studies that told the world what it wanted to hear about human nature. Article dates from 2013.

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  • Ponyohamslayer (edited 9 years ago)
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    Sadly Diederik Stapel's answer sums up why so many people make fraudulent research these days. “It was a quest for aesthetics, for beauty — instead of the truth,”

    I hope more people persue truth and not aesthetics.

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