Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

学术造假能否杜绝? (更新)

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2025-01-02

1 小时 8 分钟
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Probably not — the incentives are too strong. But a few reformers are trying. We check in on their progress, in an update to an episode originally published last year. (Part 2 of 2)
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  • This is the second and final part of a series we are revisiting from last year.

  • Stick around for an update at the end of the episode.

  • Last week's episode was called why Is There so Much Fraud in Academia?

  • We heard about the alleged fraudsters, we heard about the whistleblowers and then a lawsuit against the whistleblowers.

  • My very first thoughts were like, oh my God, how's anyone gonna be able to do this again?

  • We heard about feelings of betrayal from a co author who was also a longtime friend of the accused.

  • We once even got to the point of our two families making an offer to a developer on a project to have houses connected to each other.

  • We also heard an admission from inside the house that the house is on fire.

  • If you were just a rational agent, act in the most self interested way possible.

  • As a researcher in academia, I think you would cheat.

  • That episode was a little gossipy for us at least.

  • Today we are back to wonky.