Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted. In a series originally published in early 2024, we talk to whistleblowers, reformers, and a co-author who got caught up in the chaos. (Part 1 of 2)

SOURCES:Max Bazerman • , professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Leif Nelson • , professor of business administration at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. Brian Nosek • , professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and executive director at the Center for Open Science. Joseph Simmons • , professor of applied statistics and operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Uri Simonsohn • , professor of behavioral science at Esade Business School. Simine Vazire • , professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne and editor-in-chief of Psychological Science.

RESOURCES: • " More Than 10,000 Research Papers Were Retracted in 2023 — a New Record • ," by Richard Van Noorden ( Nature, • 2023). • " Data Falsificada (Part 1): 'Clusterfake • ,'" by Joseph Simmons, Leif Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn ( Data Colada, • 2023). • " Fabricated Data in Research About Honesty. You Can't Make This Stuff Up. Or, Can You? • " by Nick Fountain, Jeff Guo, Keith Romer, and Emma Peaslee ( Planet Money, • 2023). Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop, • by Max Bazerman (2022). • " Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty • ," by Joseph Simmons, Leif Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn ( Data Colada, • 2021). • " False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant • ," by Joseph Simmons, Leif Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn ( Psychological Science, • 2011).

EXTRAS: • " Why Do We Cheat, and Why Shouldn’t We? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2023). • " Is Everybody Cheating These Days? • " by No Stupid Questions • (2021).