Academic co-authors of famous study about honesty now shown to contain fake data still think it OK how remarkably uninvolved they were in it

This is how it works. It's about credentialism and arguments from authority, not about "science". Academia is rife with this sort of thing. Today's academics are as phony as the medieval clerisy ever was.

 

Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest:

... four of the five authors said they played no part in collecting the data for the test in question.

That leaves Ariely, who confirmed that he alone was in touch with the insurance company that ran the test with its customers and provided him with the data. But he insisted that he was innocent, implying it was the company that was responsible. ...

Francesca Gino, a Harvard Business School professor and one of the authors, wrote, “I was not involved in conversations with the insurance company that conducted the field experiment, nor in any of the steps of running it or analyzing the data.”

Another author, Nina Mazar, then at the University of Toronto and now a marketing professor at Boston University, told the blog, “I want to make clear that I was not involved in conducting the field study, had no interactions with the insurance company, and don’t know when, how, or by whom exactly the data was collected and entered. I have no knowledge of who fabricated the data.”

Gino declined to be interviewed for this story, and Mazar did not return a request for comment. ...

Bazerman of Harvard ... had questions about the insurance experiment’s seemingly “implausible data.” A coauthor assured him the data were accurate and another showed him the file, though he admitted that he did not personally examine it. When the 2012 paper made waves, he “then believed the core result” and taught it to students and corporate executives alike. In retrospect, he wrote, “I wish I had worked harder to identify the data were fraudulent, to ensure rigorous research in a collaborative context, and to promptly retract the 2012 paper.”

Shu, another coauthor who now works in venture capital, voiced similar regrets on Twitter this week. “We began our collaboration from a place of assumed trust — rather than earned trust,” she wrote. “Lesson learned.” She declined to comment for this story.

"Clerics in Iran hung a Quran high on power lines so that it could block and prevent Coronavirus from entering the area"

Seen here.

Very superstitious, wash your face and hands,

Rid me of the problem, do all that you can,

Keep me in a daydream, keep me goin' strong,

You don't wanna save me, sad is my song.

-- Stevie Wonder, Superstition, 1972

Angry Pope slaps St. Peter's Square pilgrim's grasping hand

Video.

Twilight of the gods: The man who would save Christianity in America pays $90 for a 6-pack of beer

And Rod Dreher says our elites are decadent.

David Jamieson, a Scottish leftist from Glasgow, provides a needed corrective to the idea that Luther was a radical revolutionary

For Jacobin Magazine here, from which this excerpt:

When Luther finally emerged from Wartburg, he became a force for restraint within the increasingly diverse Reformation movement. He called for a stop to many of the more aggressive changes and introduced a more gradual pace of change. ...

Characterizing Protestantism as the seed of the Enlightenment or of the classical liberal tradition ignores its often dogmatic forms and its relative disinterest in intellectual life outside theology. Indeed, in the Reformation period itself, many Catholic humanist intellectuals, such as Desiderius Erasmus, rejected the movement for its sheer inflexibility. 

David Jamieson is on Twitter, here.

The Muslim call to prayer startles a kafir in Brooklyn

Video here.

Muslims must wash before prayer to be pure: This one in Italy washes his ass, mouth and face in that order all with the same hand

In front of God and everybody. But what do they do in private?

Coming to a neighborhood near you.

Here.

Linda Sarsour is the face of American Islam: Don't assimilate, and practice Jihad by resisting Trump

Here.

Sarsour was a co-chair of The Women's March on Washington.

Reza Aslan doth protest too much: Even saying he responded "in a derogatory fashion" vainly tries to put a shine on the vulgar turds he tweets

Here . . . but also here where you'll find he has quite the habit of unleashing a veritable shitstorm of vulgarity.

Well, he did convert back to Islam from Christianity.

He did steal the idea of his so-called PhD thesis from S.G.F. Brandon.

And he did eat human brains.

Reza Aslan. Profane. Aggressive. Confrontational. Disingenuous. Kleptomaniacal. Mendacious. MUSLIM.

For CNN, he's perfect.

Martin Luther wanted to drain the Vatican swamp, using as his Twitter his German translation of the Bible and the Pamphlet

Peter Stanford, here:

The 95 theses – and much of what Luther subsequently said in public as his message spread across the continent, right up to his excommunication in 1521 – were the work of a classic disrupter who, in today’s terms, wanted to drain the “Vatican swamp”.

Fluent in the language of the street, the undeniably charismatic Luther wrote most of his best-known and most inflammatory texts not in church Latin but in German, going on to produce in 1522 the first translation of the New Testament into everyday German, and in 1534 a translation of the whole Bible.

Those in the pews no longer had to rely on the word of priests and bishops instead of the word of God. He realised the force of appealing over the head of “experts” long before Michael Gove hit upon it in the Brexit push.

And in working with the owners of newfangled printing presses, he was among the first to spot the potential of what was the social media of its day as an alternative means of spreading his new anti-establishment gospel. Pamphlets of edited versions of his tracts spread like ripples through Germany, then Europe, Rome and even England. In an age of widespread illiteracy, he made sure he engaged those who could not read by including illustrations, using crude, often satirical woodcuts from the studio of his close friend and fellow Wittenberger, Lucas Cranach the Elder.

So when he stood before the Holy Roman Emperor and the princes and prelates of Germany at the Diet of Worms in 1521, defending his writings on pain of death, Luther had crowds outside on the streets rallying to his defence, stirred up by leaflets and posters saturating the town.

Much as they wanted to be rid of “this petty monk”, as pope Adrian VI labelled him, the establishment could not hand him over to his fate for fear of igniting an uprising. So Luther, unlike those earlier would-be reformers, lived to put his theories into practice.

Purported Catholic Christopher Jolly Hale thinks walls are anti-Christian, but obviously hasn't visited the Vatican

Here.

Is the pope's wall anti-Christian?

Hale used to be a director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, which was exposed by Wikileaks as an organization working for a progressive revolution in the Catholic Church.

In other words, he's a commie.

Sad: Gay Trump supporter seemingly unaware "faithful" to a wife means "forsaking all others" sexually

Here.

Promiscuity is evidently normal.

Proof that God shows partiality

Here.