Academia is BROKEN! Harvard Fake Cancer Research Scandal Explained 

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Lying about cancer research ought to be a criminal offence

Imagine having a 2nd or 3rd or 4th authorship on your advisor’s paper and it gets retracted as you’re applying for jobs 😳

As a recent PhD graduate from an Ivy League, I gotta say that the academic research system is just corrupted. Finding answers to how the natural world works or understanding the limits of so-called applied science are nowhere near as important to the modern day research group as is the publication of papers or the award of research grants, even for projects that are doomed to fail. Wait until you find out that the same research group is often unable to replicate its own results… It’s very sad, but I don’t see it changing anytime soon.

Oh man. I'm sitting here, writing my little medical dissertation, wondering whether that comparatively simple thing I've done is even worthy of publication... but then I see this and at the very least I have the consolation that all my data is mine and real.

I worked in cancer research twice and trying to find enough evidence to validate my results was really exhaustive and long, my supervisor would not accept until i covered every analytical possible to confirm my results so in my head that's how is always supposed to work. Being in research really broke my spirit, so many people just want the prestige and the awards, while when i was a kid i just wanted to do it because it sounds cool to be super intelligent and help people, it has never been about the money or fame, at least for me,but in reality is a bunch of men children fighting about who has the biggest lollipop a lot of times.

If you think about it these scandals out of Harvard are actually excellent in helping us to dismantle the idea that this institution has any sort of legitimacy that supersedes other academic institutions because of its name and perceived status. In short can't say I don't like.

As a former CS prof who was asked to peer review articles for publication, I didn't last long because I was honest about the trash I was asked to review. And the vast majority was trash - statistics didn't make sense, papers cited didn't say what they said it did, etc. That wasn't what the publication wanted. So, after two years I was not asked again. Publish or perish has caused endemic fraud.

this seems similar to how top athletes are often juiced or how many forbes billionaires are fraudsters. When you rank the top people within a group, then you will get those who are at the top in terms of skill, luck, as well as fraud. Seems like one explanation for why this is so common in top universities

Tough days for science and its public image.

I remember trying to replicate the results of a psychiatric paper whilst in my 3rd year of university and i could for the life of me not figure out how they got the results that they did, especially since their paper was peer-reviewed.This makes me think that data falsification might be much more rampant in academia then i previously thought.

"Oh you went to Harvard? Oh wow, I'm so sorry."

I’m currently a postdoc at one of the Harvard-affiliated institutions and I do cancer research. Curiously, one of my housemates is a grad student at Khalid’s lab. If there’s one thing that being a scientist has taught me it is to identify patterns. And in this specific subject (scientific fraud), one of the most recurrent themes is working for a toxic boss. But let’s get to the root of the problem. This whole Harvard publications scandal is a byproduct of how research is funded. It all starts with the asshole principal investigator putting pressure on their students to deliver these megalomaniac high-impact papers because that will bring funding to the lab. And they

Weird, it's almost like having extremely high pressure to publish positive results in high-impact journals encourages people to cut corners or fudge numbers to get positive results when things aren't going their way

This is a reflection on the state of our society: the absence of any sense of ethics, the level of entitlement of those at the top combined with the lack of accountability of those in politics, in the government, in the judiciary, in business and in academia is astounding. This kind of behavior is a

it's the lack of action that kills me, in high school if I used a sentence from something else, I could be expelled, and they were flat out faking and coping all that?

Years ago any research coming out of Harvard was considered the gold standard. Now, in light of all the plagiarism and then questionable research, anyone should think twice about the academic and scientific integrity of any Harvard study or publication.

Research is based on prior research. If its falsified for something like this, they should be in prison and their degree credentials revoked forever

Harvard’s reputation will fall if Harvard doesn’t take any action against these people. As a person of science, I am glad I have not chosen Harvard.

Harvard University wanted my blood for erythromelalgia research. I would have had to pay for the blood drawn and they only offered to “repay” the cost for it if I did pay. Harvard received 505 million in donations in 2022. The cost of my blood being drawn was 150. Cheapskates wouldn’t give me 150 to pay for the blood drawn. Even with my rare condition with even rarer age and gender circumstances they put money before everything.