Professor Dirk Smeesters who taught Consumer
Behavior and Society at Erasmus University in Rotterdam has resigned. In his
articles, which have been withdrawn, are findings which seem highly improbable
statistically. The data on which his research was based were no longer
available when asked for. According to the university, Smeesters himself has
admitted that “he has selected the data in a way that the results he wanted
became statistically significant.” In November 2011, the fraud by another
professor at the same university, Don Poldermans became known. In September it
became known that Diederik Stapel of the University of Tilburg had greatly
cheated on results of research.
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