Dr. Gary Welton
A recent story in the Chronicle of Higher Education suggests that Michael LaCour, a UCLA graduate student, fabricated data for a journal article.
Science magazine has retracted the article, due to “the misrepresentation of survey incentives, the false sponsorship statement, and Mr. LaCour’s inability to produce original data.”
(Editor’s note: A similar incident, reported last week, has resulted in a former University of Oregon retracting journal articles in which a graduate student…