No data? No problem! Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper ( retractionwatch.com )
Almas Heshmati, a professor of economics at Jönköping University in Sweden, used Excel’s autofill function to mend the data for one of his studies.He had marked anywhere from two to four observations before or after the missing values and dragged the selected cells down or up, depending on the case. The program then filled...
‘The sincerest form of flattery’: How a math professor discovered his work had been plagiarized ( retractionwatch.com )
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Professor plagiarizes prostate cancer imaging review paper and blames ghost writer. ( retractionwatch.com )
One isn't much better than the other lol