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Ivan Oransky

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Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

No, we're pretty sure that's the lower bound. Others say it should be even higher.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

No, we're pretty sure that's the lower bound. Others say it should be even higher.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Bolt, an anesthesiology researcher, was studying something called head of starch, which was essentially a blood substitute. Not exactly blood, but something that when you were on like a heart-lung pump, a machine, during certain surgeries or you're in the ICU or something like that, it would basically cut down on the amount of blood transfusions people would need. And that's got obvious benefits.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Bolt, an anesthesiology researcher, was studying something called head of starch, which was essentially a blood substitute. Not exactly blood, but something that when you were on like a heart-lung pump, a machine, during certain surgeries or you're in the ICU or something like that, it would basically cut down on the amount of blood transfusions people would need. And that's got obvious benefits.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Bolt, an anesthesiology researcher, was studying something called head of starch, which was essentially a blood substitute. Not exactly blood, but something that when you were on like a heart-lung pump, a machine, during certain surgeries or you're in the ICU or something like that, it would basically cut down on the amount of blood transfusions people would need. And that's got obvious benefits.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Now, he did a lot of the important work in that area, and his work was cited in all the guidelines. It turned out that he was faking data.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Now, he did a lot of the important work in that area, and his work was cited in all the guidelines. It turned out that he was faking data.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Now, he did a lot of the important work in that area, and his work was cited in all the guidelines. It turned out that he was faking data.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

He at one point was under criminal indictment or at least criminal investigation. That didn't go anywhere. The hospital, the clinic also, which to be fair, had actually identified a lot of problems. They came under pretty severe scrutiny. But in terms of actual sanctions, pretty minimal.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

He at one point was under criminal indictment or at least criminal investigation. That didn't go anywhere. The hospital, the clinic also, which to be fair, had actually identified a lot of problems. They came under pretty severe scrutiny. But in terms of actual sanctions, pretty minimal.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

He at one point was under criminal indictment or at least criminal investigation. That didn't go anywhere. The hospital, the clinic also, which to be fair, had actually identified a lot of problems. They came under pretty severe scrutiny. But in terms of actual sanctions, pretty minimal.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

So universities, they protect fraudsters in a couple different ways. One is that they are very slow to act, they're very slow to investigate, and they keep all of those investigations hidden.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

So universities, they protect fraudsters in a couple different ways. One is that they are very slow to act, they're very slow to investigate, and they keep all of those investigations hidden.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

So universities, they protect fraudsters in a couple different ways. One is that they are very slow to act, they're very slow to investigate, and they keep all of those investigations hidden.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

The other is that because lawyers run universities, like they frankly run everything else, they tell people who are involved in investigations, if someone calls for a reference letter, let's say someone leaves college, And they haven't been quite found guilty, but as a plea bargain sort of thing, they will leave and then they'll stop the investigation.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

The other is that because lawyers run universities, like they frankly run everything else, they tell people who are involved in investigations, if someone calls for a reference letter, let's say someone leaves college, And they haven't been quite found guilty, but as a plea bargain sort of thing, they will leave and then they'll stop the investigation.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

The other is that because lawyers run universities, like they frankly run everything else, they tell people who are involved in investigations, if someone calls for a reference letter, let's say someone leaves college, And they haven't been quite found guilty, but as a plea bargain sort of thing, they will leave and then they'll stop the investigation.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Then when someone calls for a reference, and we actually have the receipts on this because we filed public records requests for emails between different parties, we learned that they would be routinely told not to say anything about the misconduct.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Then when someone calls for a reference, and we actually have the receipts on this because we filed public records requests for emails between different parties, we learned that they would be routinely told not to say anything about the misconduct.

Freakonomics Radio
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)

Then when someone calls for a reference, and we actually have the receipts on this because we filed public records requests for emails between different parties, we learned that they would be routinely told not to say anything about the misconduct.