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How Date a Supermodel, Thanks To Academic Fraud in Medicine

How Date a Supermodel, Thanks To Academic Fraud in Medicine

It's a cautionary tale...for the unambitious doctors who don't commit it.

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Owen Scott Muir, M.D, DFAACAP
Jan 17, 2025
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So I was listening to Freakonomics, like I do, just the other night. They have two phenomenal episodes about academic fraud. This podcast two-parter covers the story of Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino, two social scientists (one in good standing at Duke, and the other suspended from Harvard and suing them, in that order) regarding allegations of fraud in their research. Research regarding, among other things, academic fraud.

Gino even wrote a book about it! It’s called Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and In Life (that is an Amazon affiliate link for humor)… from her book promo material:

Gino argues that the future belongs to the rebel — and that there’s a rebel in each of us. We live in turbulent times, when competition is fierce, reputations are easily tarnished on social media, and the world is more divided than ever before. In this cutthroat environment, cultivating rebel talent is what allows businesses to evolve and to prosper. And rebellion has an added bene…

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