Here's another academic hoax from 2019:
> #PeterBoghossian, a philosopher at Portland State University, dropped a thunderous bomb on the academic community: He revealed that he had co-authored 20 bogus articles, most related to gender and queer studies (what critics often deride as "grievance studies"), and submitted them to a range of high-profile journals.

https://psmag.com/education/a-philosophers-hoax-embarrassed-several-academic-journals-was-it-satire-or-fraud
#Boghossian #AcademicHoax #ScienceScandal #MechanicalWriting

> #Stapel confessed that he had made up many of his results... was led astray by “a quest for aesthetics, for beauty—instead of the truth,” and also by ambition. To actually run the experiment would have been to run the risk that a disordered environment has no effect on racial attitudes—a “null finding” that would mean he’d wasted his time, because journals aren’t usually interested in experiments that don’t prove something new.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/can-social-scientists-save-themselves-human-behavior-78858
#Sokal #ScienceScandal #Reproducibility