“My view is that if I can show that a result was cooked and that doing it correctly does not yield the answer the authors claimed, then the result is discredited. . . . What I hear, instead, is the following . . .”

Economic historian Tim Guinnane writes: I have a general question that I have not seen addressed on your blog. Often this question turns into a narrow question about retracting papers, but I think that short-circuits an important discussion. Like many … Continue reading → …