The Misdirection of Mark Houser

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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.

A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about cancel culture in academia but now the SJWs have come for one of our own! We welcome back Yoel Inbar to talk about his experience applying for a position at UCLA psychology only to have his candidacy pulled at the last minute because of remarks he made on his podcast (!) about diversity statements. What does this mean for freedom of expression in academia? Should we advise our students and younger faculty to watch what they say when it comes to politically charged topics? Are they really going to start combing through podcast episodes now – is nothing sacred?

Plus another case of fraud in psychology comes to light courtesy of the Data Colada guys.

Data Colada post about Gino fraud