Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2024-12-26
Books mentioned on Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)
Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Freakonomics
Freakonomics by Steven D.
Discussed“I rarely do this, but today I'm going to start by reading a couple of sentences from Freakonomics, which Steve Levitt and I published in 2005. Cheating, we wrote, may or may not be human nature, but it is certainly a prominent feature in just about every human endeavor.”
