Harvard Professor of Honesty Fired for Fraudulent Research

Harvard has been sold to the public for decades as the name to trust when it comes to science and research, but the mass deception of liberal-run academia is now being exposed by investigations. In the latest such case that made news, a distinguished Harvard professor was outed for fabricating data in multiple studies.

As reported in the New York Post (NYP) Francesca Gino had been known as a celebrated behavioral scientist at the Harvard Business School until an investigation found her game. The school’s governing board concluded that Gino had fabricated data in four of her studies so as to validate her hypotheses. Following a closed-door meeting of the Harvard administration, Professor Gino was fired after having her tenure revoked. Ironically, Gino was known to be an expert in the study of honesty and ethical behavior.

Boston-based GBH News reported last week that an internal investigation was launched into Gino’s academic work in 2023 when a group of behavioral scientists running a blog called Data Colada became suspicious of the studies published by Gino and expressed their concerns. When the subsequent Harvard investigation found that Gino had manipulated data, they placed her on unpaid administrative leave.

Denying any wrongdoing, Gino fired back with a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard and the science bloggers who rang the alarm bell over her studies. In September 2024, however, a federal court dismissed her lawsuit and ruled that being a public figure meant her work was subject to criticism under the First Amendment.

Reporting on the story, National Review wrote (May 31) that the scandal of “Harvard’s dishonest expert on honesty” shows that what is sold to the public as science is part of “ideological allegiance replacing the quest for truth.”

Conservative commentator Justin Hart chimed in on the story by hinting at the irony of a professor of honesty getting busted for academic fraud. In his Substack column as well as his X post (May 27), Hart called it “a perfect metaphor for modern academia’s moral posturing contrasted with a rotten core.”

Last year, Harvard University was rocked by a scandal of a similar nature but at a much higher level, as its president Claudine Gay was caught committing plagiarism. Gay faced more than two dozen claims of plagiarism and decided to step down. Considered a DEI hire by conservatives, Gay also received fierce backlash for refusing to condemn antisemitic remarks by dozens of anti-Israel students at Harvard – a stance over which the Harvard administration actually defended her.

The current Trump administration took on Harvard in April this year by freezing $2.2 billion in federal grants to the university over the institution’s inaction against antisemitism on its campus, while also engaging in racial discrimination against white people. Harvard has asked a federal court to unblock the federal funds frozen by the Trump administration.

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