Episode 263: Free Yoel
Very Bad Wizards
The Misdirection of Mark Houser
Mark Houser's motivation was clearly to stop all of it. When he got caught, it was actually in retrospect, a fairly tame version of fraud where he just like altered a couple of numbers because the code wasn't quite significant. You know, what's kind of crazy to me is that these authors, like themselves posted the data on whatever open science and the authors were involved in an attempt to replicate their own findings and reported that they failed to replicate them. So either this was being driven by the good co-authors, quote unquote, or it's just all like a fucking smokescreen. These are the same people trying to keep us.
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