This Scientist catches FRAUD in Harvard and Stanford Research

Elisabeth Bik:

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[twentytwentyeight]

Ironic that the mandatory plagiarism checks we are trained to fear as undergrads disappear the higher into academia one reaches 😢

[JohnS-ildr]

The college will now try to discredit her with false allegations.

[lbride]

Dr Bik's name should be used as an award (the Bik award), given away yearly to Data detective. Someone should start crowdfunding asap.

[stischer]

As a former PhD student and prof, the number of profs who claimed the work of their assistants is disgusting. Add to it the pressure to "get the results" even though they may not exist, especially with well-known researchers, is even worse.

[trevjaywill]

Elisabeth Bik - The researcher who researches researcher's research so that we can know when they are lying to us. So sad its come to this, but so grateful for her bravery and courage! Very inspirational

[lectinfreesolutions]

And this is exactly why we should always question everything, especially the SCIENCE

[NCardosoIres]

Imagine how many people used these works as reference, multiplying the misinformation in the highest level

[gzhang]

In my field of research, a famed professor made a remark at a conference that some people wrote research papers faster than he could read them.

[bdcochran]

Not surprising. 40 years ago two profs had a required book (which they wrote, of course). It was impossible for one of the guys to have been a co-author as his daily work would not permitted the same. The required book was leaving something out. I went to a graduate library and found the material within minutes. The textbook was bulk lifted, word for tranlated word, from a book published in 1910 by a Frenchman. Similarly, a school was hot to trot to publish an article. The purported author was not capable of producing the article which was rather disjointed. I went to a specialist public library and within 15 minutes found it had been published at Stanford 6 months earlier. The student was not disciplined.

My sister sat on many doctoral committees and more than a few theses had significant defects.

[h.yadigarece]

As a chemist and into cancer studies, I found about her during my PhD. She`s awesome😊😊

[albertoandrade]

The queen herself!!!
I must admit she made me a little jaded. In the past I would think most issues in research were due to sloppy procedures. Her uncovering so much outright fraud now made me assume evil intentions until proven otherwise

[davidc]

I am a former professor who taught media studies and history. One area of research that I followed was the media effects and media violence debate. I personally wasn't a researcher in that area, I just taught a segment on it for a course I was teaching. I was flabbergasted by the shoddy research in that area and how debunked or questionable research would often still be cited by large associations like the APA when they make statements linking violent entertainment to real-world violence. The example that still sticks out to me was Dr. Brad Bushman, who always produced research showing a relationship between the consumption of media violence and increased aggression/violence, etc. He has had a few papers retracted (he is listed in Retraction Watch), but was still cited as an expert and has had no sanctions against him. In fact, his former PhD student (who was a co-author on one or more of the papers) had her PhD revoked while nothing happened to him. I even saw him on Twitter trying to sick reporters on other researchers who were simply questioning his work and public statements. All of this really opened my eyes to the many, many problems in academic research and I am very glad I left last year. Anyway, great channel... these are important topics which the public needs to be aware of and there needs to be much more pressure inside academia to take it all more seriously.

[waltp]

Thank you, Dr. Bik. We need more honest people in this world of corruption and lies!

[michaelstone]

Can't remember where or when I 1st heard the following
"You know bull 💩 is headed your way when you hear recent studies suggest"

[dinaguzun]

I have so much respect towards Elisabeth Bik! She is doing a favor not only to the science but to the humanity in general.

[franks]

I agree, there should be a bik award. Thank you Ms. Bik for this service! Keep integrity in our universities. Need to expand this to other fields.

[aaronbredon]

We really need a Journal dedicated to publishing debunks of papers from other Journals, and rating the percentage of flaws, fraud, retractions, and especially unretracted flawed/fraudulent papers. And it should have a searchable index so other scientists can search an author, paper or Journal to see if it should be trusted.

If that were created, the incentive would change - after all, no scientist or Journal would want to be considered “don’t trust anything from this source” or even “double check before trusting”.

[mathewphoria]

It feels like these "peer reviewed" papers or studies are never actually "peer reviewed" even. thank you for highlighting this!

[kennethhymes]

I was one of many people who "collected" "data" for the landmark Annenberg study of violence on television. We were mostly teenagers and random adults with free time in the day, watching primetime dramas on black and white video tape reels, no ads, in a converted classroom, deciding with no real guidance whether a particular scene contained an act of violence and of what category and severity, and various other pieces of highly subjective assessment. This was one end of the study, I can only imagine what W.E.I.R.D. and other structural problems existed on the "effects" end. Just a vortex of self reporting and questionable quantization of culture.

[roryfletcher]

She’s a complete star! Deserves more recognition for her services to science.