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Good, this kind of thing in academia is far too common. Cherry picking results all the way to outright falsifying data. It’s a problem at Auckland university here in NZ too, my friends who are studying there say that their results are ignored if they are inconvenient. It’s disgusting, and they should make an example of them (they are I guess)

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I was just reading an article from a HN story yesterday, where it was found that around 1/4 of data published in studies in anesthesiology were found to be faked. You know, anesthesiology, the field where giving you the wrong drug or the wrong amount can kill you.

I strongly suspect that a driving factor is guys like this - leaders who reward "positive" results and punish "negative" ones.

I don’t think it has to do with academia. It’s just that manipulating data is common if it benefits people. Think of Facebook ad efficiency scandal, it’s just one example.

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