A well-known psychologist in the Netherlands whose work has been published widely in professional journals falsified data and made up entire experiments, an investigating committee has found. Experts say the case exposes deep flaws in the way science is done in a field, psychology, that has only recently earned a fragile respectability.
The psychologist, Diederik Stapel, of Tilburg University, committed academic fraud in “several dozen” published papers, many accepted in respected journals and reported in the news media, according to a report released on Monday by the three Dutch institutions where he has worked: the University of Groningen, the University of Amsterdam, and Tilburg. The journal Science, which published one of Dr. Stapel’s papers in April, posted an “editorial expression of concern” about the research online on Tuesday.
That's is what happens when there is a conflict of interest.
ReplyDeleteThere is always a conflict of interest. That's what happens when there is too much ambition outside of the truth.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt, we will soon hear that because of this, one cannot trust ANY psychology. Wait for it.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/10/28/41012.htm
ReplyDeleteAn elderly widow claims father & son rabbis swooped down on her the day after her husband died & coerced her into signing over her multimillion-dollar Malibu home, and buying a $100,000 Torah, while deceptively promising "to support her financially for the rest of her life."
Maxine Coe sued Chabad of California, Levi Yitzchak Cunin & Boruch Shlomo Cunin, alleging financial abuse of an elder, fraud & misrepresentation, in Superior Court.
Coe, who was 82, says in Dec 2008, while her husband was gravely ill in the hospital, plaintiff had been in contact regarding having a rabbi visit for comfort & support, and for securing a final resting place for her husband upon death. Cunin & his father went to visit plaintiff.
Her husband died Jan 13, 2009. "Within one day after the death, while plaintiff was grieving, defendants Cunin offered to bury her husband at the Chabad burial plot in Running Springs & to support plaintiff financially for the rest of her life. In doing so, the defendants coerced plaintiff into signing documents by misrepresenting to plaintiff the nature of the documents, which included the total transfer of ownership of plaintiff's multimillion dollar family home in Malibu to Chabad, the appointment of Rabbi Mordechai Zev Nemtzov & subsequent appointment of Rabbi Yakov Baitelman as plaintiff's attorneys, and failure to carry out their promise that she would stay in the house & they would take care of all her needs & expenses. Defendants had not disclosed that she would no longer own the house, that she would still be responsible for taxes & upkeep & utilities, and that they would use plaintiff's bank account to pay for all her expenses without using their own funds to support plaintiff.
"In 2011, plaintiff began to receive notices from her bank that her checks had been returned for insufficient funds."
Coe says the rabbis also coerced plaintiff into purchasing a Torah which she did not need from defendants for $100,000 & into giving substantial sums of money to Chabad & other defendants.
In return, defendants provided nothing to plaintiff except a burial place.
"In addition, defendants moved individuals into the property without paying rent to plaintiff. This violated plaintiff's quiet enjoyment of the property & her privacy."
Coe seeks punitive damages & quiet title to her home.
She is represented by Sheldon Lodmer.
There are many stories like this about Cunin. He got the talent to get old rich people to give him their properties.
ReplyDeleteHe also own many real estate in LA area including some mansion in Brentwood next to these Hollywood stars