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Or more recently Dan Kahneman, Dan Arielly or Stephen Jay Gould have also been caught fabricating details or whole results.

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I don't know of any thimble recent (or non-recent) where Gould was "caught fabricating details or whole results".

In 1981 Gould accused Morton of fabricating details. Gould died 20 years after that. Nine years after Gould died, some said Morton had not fabricated details.

I should add Morton was a phrenologist who did not believe in common descent.

> Dan Kahneman

I know the underpowered studies cited in Thinking Fast and Slow didn't replicate but I don't think there was any fabrication?

The famously ironic case of honesty in a study about honesty

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/09/14/highly-criticized-pap...

That's Dan Ariely. I don't think there's any known example of Kahnemann fabricating data.

As fair as I know none of the research by Kahemann himself is suspect, but a lot of the studies he cited in Thinking Fast and Slow, especially the ones about priming, have failed to replicate. YMMV on what this implies for the book as a whole.

He's open about the priming chapter concern:

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...

The Fifty Minute Hour / The Jet Propelled Couch would be a classic example. Lindner's 'patients' were composite characters.

Mudslinging without the slightest trace of proof.

Citation needed.

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