Vegetarians and scientific (mis)conduct

When researchers publish fake results, it can be hard to get people to accept the truth.

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9th June, 2012

Last year I came across a news article that described a yet-to-be-published study showing that people who eat meat are more selfish than vegetarians. As vegetarians around the world rejoiced, happy in the knowledge that they were nicer people, I felt vaguely depressed. Although I’m an apologetic meat-eater, I am interested in the psychology behind people’s dietary behaviour. Unfortunately for me, if you don’t get your work published first, you find it hard to publish it at all. Or so I thought. After all, one of the researchers in this study, Diederik Stapel, is a big deal, with a ...

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