Tilburg UniversityWIKIMEDIA, RON MAIJEN
Two years after being exposed by colleagues for making up data in at least 30 published journal articles, former Tilburg University professor Diederick Stapel will avoid a trial for fraud. Once one of the Netherlands’ leading social psychologists, Stapel has agreed to a pre-trial settlement with Dutch prosecutors to perform 120 hours of community service.
Responding to concerns of scientific misconduct voiced by junior researchers, officials at Tilburg launched an investigation into Stapel’s work in 2011. Officials at the University of Gronigen and the University of Amsterdam, where Stapel was previously employed, also launched investigations. A report by the three universities concluded that Stapel had manipulated data in several dozen papers spanning nearly a decade and that he was solely responsible for the fraud. In ...
