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1. fivethirtyeight.com › features › how-two-gradHow Two Grad Students Uncovered An Apparent Fraud — And A Way ...

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   Apr 7, 2016 · A UCLA grad student named Michael LaCour claimed to have persuaded straight people to support gay marriage with his research. Two Berkeley grad students uncovered his fraud and found a better way to do political canvassing.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › When_contact_changes_mindsWhen contact changes minds - Wikipedia

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   When contact changes minds. "When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality" is a fraudulent article by then- UCLA political science graduate student Michael LaCour and Columbia University political science professor Donald Green. The article was published in the academic journal Science in December 2014 ...

4. www.thecut.com › 2015 › 05The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Graduate ...

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   May 29, 2015 · Michael LaCour, a political-science grad student at UCLA, claimed to have conducted a groundbreaking study on gay-marriage persuasion and published it in Science. But David Broockman, a Berkeley student, found out that LaCour faked his data and survey results, leading to a retraction and a scandal.

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5. www.buzzfeednews.com › lacour-respondsAuthor Of Tainted Gay Marriage Study Admits To Destroying ...

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   May 30, 2015 · Michael LaCour, the UCLA graduate student who has been accused of making up data and lying about how his research was funded, has published a much-anticipated response to these allegations. On Friday LaCour sent BuzzFeed News and other outlets a 23-page document outlining how he believes his critics went wrong.

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6. www.vox.com › 2015/6/3 › 8720975How the biggest fraud in political science nearly got missed

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   Michael LaCour is a very, very bad scientist. He’s the UCLA PhD candidate at the center of one of the biggest academic scandals in years: he faked a political science study purporting to show ...

7. slate.com › culture › 2015Gay-marriage study faked: How grad student David Broockman ...

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   Jun 1, 2015 · But back in 2013, the now-26-year-old Broockman, a self-identifying “political science nerd,” was so impressed by LaCour’s study that he wanted to run his own version of it with his own ...

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   Who is Michael LaCour?

   • Michael LaCour, the UCLA graduate student who has been accused of making up data and lying about how his research was funded, has published a much-anticipated response to these allegations. On Friday LaCour sent BuzzFeed News and other outlets a 23-page document outlining how he believes his critics went wrong.

   Author Of Tainted Gay Marriage Study Admits To Destroying Data But

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   Does Michael LaCour answer any questions about the study?

   • LaCour's response does not, however, directly answer a number of other questions surrounding the study—and it raises new issues. ^ Neuroskeptic (June 1, 2015). "The Problem With Michael LaCour's Rebuttal". blogs.discovermagazine.com. Discover. Archived from the original on June 12, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2015. ^ "Andrew Carnegie Fellows 2015".

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   Did Michael LaCour misrepresent his funding sources?

   • In a much-anticipated response to allegations, graduate student Michael LaCour apologized for misrepresenting his funding sources and deleting data, but claimed his results are solid. In the second week of this scandal, political scientists are talking more about the culpability of the two senior scientists who advised LaCour.

   Author Of Tainted Gay Marriage Study Admits To Destroying Data But

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   Did Lacour really do something wrong?

   • LaCour’s answers, Broockman says, tended to be vague and unhelpful. It was the Miami project that finally nudged Broockman and Kalla toward their first hard evidence that LaCour had done something wrong.

   The Case of the Amazing Gay-Marriage Data: How a Graduate Student

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9. www.chronicle.com › article › the-unraveling-ofThe Unraveling of Michael LaCour - The Chronicle of Higher ...

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   Jun 2, 2015 · The Unraveling of Michael LaCour. By Tom Bartlett. June 2, 2015. Christopher Sowers. A UCLA grad student, Michael LaCour produced a monumental study about political persuasion. Now he stands ...