The good folks at Ricochet just a few days ago published a must-read piece on Michael LaCour, a UCLA graduate student who seems to have faked the data that was the basis for an article published in the journal Science, offering quantitative proof that “LGBT door-to-door canvassing had a significant effect in shifting voters toward pro-gay-marriage views.”
One problem of many: a firm that LaCour had supposedly hired to conduct the door-to-door survey denied ever doing so.
Writer Tim Groseclose goes into significant detail to prove his point, including examining other papers published by LaCour, but his conclusion is simple enough:
… I am certain that LaCour faked the results of the original paper—the one published in Science. I predict that UCLA will refuse to award him a PhD, and I predict that Princeton will retract the assistant professorship that it offered him. I predict that UCLA or Princeton or both will conduct an investigation. I suspect that they will find that LaCour faked results in a few papers, not just one.
MUST-read==> MT @Tim_Groseclose UCLA poli scientist who faked results, it appears, faked results of another paper https://t.co/jc1GuUVSZf
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) May 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/stangertweets/status/603275653568335872
Well, look who’s back in the news today.
Michael LaCour, grad student who faked data for same-sex marriage study, fabricated a teaching award, too http://t.co/EuQYMthncu
— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) May 27, 2015
New York magazine‘s Jesse Singal reports that LaCour’s curriculum vitae lists him as winner of the Emerging Instructor Award, UCLA Office of Instructional Development — an award that the school says doesn’t exist.
Emailing LaCour for comment, Singal says that “a browser extension I installed to notify me when his website changed pinged me. His website’s link to his CV, which he’d taken down down recently, is now back up. This version no longer lists the Emerging Instructor Award, and the entire “Original Grants & Data” section has been cut.”
@a_picazo Look, it's bad. We all know that. But the man walked on the fucking moon. Cut him some slack.
— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) May 27, 2015
@mattgurney Fair. Plus, his developing the polio vaccine while in transit to/from the moon is an achievement which shouldn't be forgotten.
— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) May 27, 2015
@a_picazo It's a shame he wasn't able to get ALL the people out of the towers before they fell, but the thousands he did are grateful.
— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) May 27, 2015
@mattgurney That he saved them while helping mom deliver me is a miracle. AND he ensured the pizza arrived in under 30 minutes. @a_picazo
— ???? ?????? (@ryanwright) May 27, 2015
@ryanwright even made the dough from scratch! @mattgurney
— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) May 27, 2015
@a_picazo @ryanwright Best part about that pizza: Even when it's under 30 minutes, it's still free.
— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) May 27, 2015
@mattgurney @ryanwright satisfies the hunger *and* the pride. #IMadeThat!
— Alheli Picazo (@a_picazo) May 27, 2015
@a_picazo Now now, when you're the pope's cousin, it is never about pride. @mattgurney
— ???? ?????? (@ryanwright) May 27, 2015
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