By Frank van Kolfschooten
Science
Originally published May 6, 2014
Scientists here are still searching their souls about two previous scandals--involving Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in 2011 and Dirk Smeesters of Erasmus University in Rotterdam a year later.
Now they have learned that a national research integrity panel has found evidence of data manipulation in the work of Jens Forster, a social psychologist at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
The university has already announced that it will request the retraction of one of Forster's articles.
The case is drawing widespread international attention as well, in part because Forster, who's German and came to Amsterdam in 2007, enjoys a sterling reputation.
"He is among the most creative and influential social psychologists of his generation," says Jeffrey Sherman of the University of California, Davis.
The entire article is here, behind a paywall.
