Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 14:29:06 -0500 Message-ID: <55734A04.741B@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 12:29:08 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,sci.math,alt.astronomy Subject: the most spectacular scientific fraud in a generation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 23.241.144.149 X-Trace: sv3-9P5VfAn/YUh41okL5BIgmEa2vRl5ykYedhmaWbyQD5E3pLim++e3UrHX9RaKKzgY6YsOHxkcbX7J8Fk!vAh7io+/IBx3qT7canQcdV1yfVYvi950x803wRMhcEwsZoguJlq59qk2wlCXh6hogu5/8Dd71wxr!Mb4hV6e7Vpg= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2354 Xref: aioe.org sci.physics:498253 sci.physics.relativity:352051 sci.math:307219 alt.astronomy:269673 Last year UCLA political science grad student and maybe soon-to-be Princeton professor Michael LaCour released stunning findings from a field trial on gay marriage called “When Contact Changes Minds.” He found that a 20-minute conservation with a house-to-house canvasser could convert huge numbers of opponents into supporters, at least if the canvassers explained they were gay and told personal stories. The study quickly became a media sensation, the most talked-about poli-sci paper in years, and it led gay-rights activists including some working on the Ireland referendum to retool their voter outreach. The problem is that Mr. LaCour stands accused of faking everything from start to finish. Ph.D. candidates at Berkeley David Broockman and Josh Kalla tried but failed to replicate Mr. LaCour’s results. They then noticed unusual statistical irregularities in Mr. LaCour’s survey panel. He now says he pulled a Hillary Clinton and deleted his raw data. But the canvassing firm he claimed to have employed has never heard of the project—and there is no proof anyone was ever contacted, much less changed their minds. "accused of faking everything from start to finish" "unusual statistical irregularities" all you guys are a bunch of crooks...if you stand behind him.