Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data
Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data
arstechnica.com Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data
Harvard, however, will still face trial over how it managed the investigation.
Harvard, however, will still face trial over how it managed the investigation.
Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.259933/gov.uscourts.mad.259933.74.0.pdf
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While the suit against Harvard will go on, the court has ruled that evidence-backed conclusions regarding fabricated data cannot constitute defamation—which is probably a very good thing for science.
The fact that someone even filed that nonsense...
But yeah, pretty easy ruling.
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