Trust the Science: Harvard Professor Who Studied Honesty Loses Tenure For Dishonesty

The New York Post reports that Francesca Gino, "a celebrated behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School," lost her tenure and was terminated for faking the results of studies to advance her hypothesis that "requiring individuals to sign an honesty pledge at the beginning of a form, rather than at the end, significantly boosts honest responses." Gino, for her part, insists that the false data was either due to errors on the part of her research assistants or "potential tampering by someone with 'malicious intentions'".  She has also filed a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard.