Harvard Dishonesty Expert Accused of Dishonesty Files Defamation Lawsuit Against University, Critics
“Harvard Business School would not discuss the lawsuit Wednesday. The named defendants could not be immediately reached for comment.”
Back in June, we highlighted a story about a Harvard professor named Francesca Gino, who is supposedly an expert on dishonesty and was accused of dishonest academic practices.
The report came from the Financial Times:
Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty
A high-profile expert on ethics and dishonesty is facing allegations of dishonesty in her own work and has taken administrative leave from Harvard Business School.
Francesca Gino is one of HBS’s best-known behavioural scientists and author of Rebel Talent, a 2018 book with the subtitle “Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life”.
The controversy, which centres on the use of allegedly fraudulent data in published papers, is the latest to hit the field of behavioural science and psychology research. Some well-publicised findings in the discipline have proved hard to replicate, casting a shadow over the highly modish branch of management studies and social science.
Gino, whose work has been widely cited, including in the Financial Times, has been a professor of business administration at HBS since 2014. Her HBS profile was recently altered to indicate that she is on administrative leave. She did not respond to FT requests for comment via email and social media. A Harvard Business School spokesman said: “We have no comment at this time.”
Gino has now launched a lawsuit against Harvard and some of her critics.
The Boston Globe reports:
Harvard professor accused of research fraud files defamation lawsuit against university, academics
After being accused of research fraud, Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino filed a defamation and discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against Harvard University and three academics who detailed the fraud allegations in their blog.
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Boston, names Harvard Business School dean Srikant Datar as well as three authors of the Data Colada blog, who alleged in a four-part series that four academic articles Gino cowrote contained fraudulent data. The three named authors are professors Uri Simonsohn, of Esade Business School in Spain; Leif Nelson, at the University of California, Berkeley; and Joseph Simmons, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Harvard Business School would not discuss the lawsuit Wednesday. The named defendants could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Data Colada series, which followed an initial report by The Chronicle of Higher Education in June about Harvard’s investigation into a paper Gino coathored, quickly made national headlines and sent shock waves through academia. Two of the articles named in the Data Colada series have since been retracted, with a third set to be retracted next month.
Here’s an interesting observation:
Prof. Francesca Gino is suing a group of data sleuths and Harvard for $25 million for claiming she falsified data in a published study. She opens her suit in bravura fashion, pointing out–in a parenthetical–that the sleuths are "all male". pic.twitter.com/bJLqQtZ8w5
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) August 3, 2023
You can read the full complaint here.
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Excellent. A cage match of genuine deplorables.
Two progressives enter, one progressive leaves. A win for humanity.
Agree. Although a better “win for humanity” would be : “2 progressives enter, 0 progressives leave”.
2 enter, 1 leaves only to succumb to injuries.
So this expert turns out to be an expert ‘progressive’ expert.
Dishonesty expert…. okay… so what exactly is her position on the faculty? I must have missed it in the article.
Commissar member of the revolutionary committee of truth and reconciliation?
Oh, and biz school Prof.
If Francesca undergoes sex change surgery she can become Frank.
Hey, now!
And being frank is a defense against charges of dishonesty.
Unlike many faculty she is not just an academic but a uses her expertise in the her day to day life.
Dishonesty means something different to women.
There’s a patronizing sense of “honest,” for a simple and unpolished person, that would make dishonesty elite.
Filing in federal court with such a skimpy gender discrimination claim is risky. If that count gets dismissed on summary judgment, the entire case has to be dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Reading through the relatively short Datacolada blog posts on four of her papers is pretty convincing. Is her argument going to be that all the men lie, too, hut don’t face consequences?
When you waste money on this nonsense, universities have to understand that they are hiring mentally unbalanced people who will turn on the university in a second. That is why only a fool hires any employee with a strong STEM background. “Ism” and “studies”majors are already dullards, prone to fanaticism.
“That is why only a fool hires any employee with a strong STEM background.”
I assume you lost a “not” there somewhere.
Indeed, I wonder at the wisdom of doctors who specialist in gender transitions. How can they be unaware that every one of their headsick patients is a walking IED?
Something she did threatened somebody.
She blatantly falsified data and got caught. Unless the entire thing is a total fabrication.
As a dishonesty expert, she is a perfect match for the Biden administration!
She will be able to find it in every statement anyone from the WH makes.
Harvard dishonesty expert accused of dishonesty
That sort of proves that she’s no expert at dishonesty. Her students should sue Hah-vahd for fraudulently charging them exorbitant amounts of money to get instruction from a dishonesty amateur claiming to be an expert. How are the aspiring Hah-vahd dirtbags supposed to learn how to lie properly when the school gives them this idiot for their instruction??
She just wasn’t as good at statistics as she thought she was and, though chance, got her work noticed by some people that were very good.
She was just practicing what she preaches.
Once again, I wouldn’t hire a Harvard grad to clean my toilets. They’re not worth the trouble.
Friends do not let friends have anything to do with Harvard.
Seriously.
Harvard clearly is not what it once may have been.
You and your family have many better options than to allocate time and money for a Harvard degree
If you have what it takes to get admitted to Harvard, then you have what it takes to have a wonderful future without ever having to deal with Harvard. Or any of its people..
Don’t believe me?
Don’t have to.
“A high-profile expert on ethics and dishonesty is facing allegations of dishonesty in her own work and has taken administrative leave from Harvard Business School.”
I asked a prosecutor friend of mine if it was possible to detect a liar and his comment was that he had to get two people to give him the same story.