Psychologist made up sex bias results
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Psychologist made up sex bias results
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The career of a promising young social psychologist lies in ruins following her admission that she “fabricated” five experiments on social discrimination that she conducted while at Harvard University. Last week the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) of the Department of Health and Human Services announced that Karen Ruggiero, 33, who last year moved to the University of Texas (UT), Austin, “engaged in scientific misconduct by fabricating data in research supported by the National Institutes of Health.” A September report from Harvard assistant dean Kathleen Buckley to Harvard's Standing Committee on Professional Conduct cites Ruggiero's comments in a 21 August letter that the manuscripts were based on “fabricated” data. In addition to retracting four published studies, Ruggiero is banned from receiving federal research funds or serving on government advisory committees for 5 years. A woman who answered the phone at her Texas home declined to discuss the case.
