WIKIMEDIA, DARWIN BELLThe graduate students who uncovered scientific fraud last year have used the now-retracted study’s methodology—surveying people on their views of social issues, then talking with them face-to-face, and surveying them again—to show that the strategy really can change opinions on transgender rights.
Grad students David Broockman and Joshua Kalla of the University of California, Berkeley, figured out that a high-profile paper from University of California, Los Angeles, grad student Michael LaCour and Columbia University political scientist Donald Green, was largely faked. LaCour and Green falsely claimed that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) volunteers had canvassed hundreds of people concerning their views on same-sex marriage and recorded a change in the subjects’ positions after meeting and talking with the canvassers. After Brookman and Kelly raised the alarm bells about the falsified data, LaCour and Green retracted the 2014 Science paper that had reported their results.
In a Science paper published last week (April 7), Broockman, who is now a professor at Stanford University, and Kalla reported that employing ...
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