In early September, Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel of the Institute for Behavioral Economics Research at Tilburg University was fired from his institution for faking data in his research on fundamental aspects of human nature. Over the course of the next month, the case slowly turned into one of the biggest cases of scientific misconduct in recent history, with the results of an estimated one hundred plus papers falling into question.
Now, Science has made the suspicion over one of those papers official, retracting a 2011 paper published by Stapel on the negative health- and quality-of-life consequences of being discriminated against. According to the retraction notice published yesterday (December 1) in the journal, which published an editorial expression of concern on the paper last month, ...
