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A former New York prison guard was found guilty of murder in the beating death of inmate Robert Brooks, while two others were acquitted; Brooks died at Marcy Correctional Facility after being transferred there, sparking outrage and calls for systemic reform.
Harvard President Claudine Gay will request three additional corrections to her 1997 Ph.D. dissertation as part of ongoing updates following allegations of plagiarism. The Harvard Corporation, the university's highest governing body, conducted a review and found evidence of improper citations but concluded that Gay's actions did not amount to research misconduct. This marks another setback for Gay, who has faced criticism over her handling of various issues during her first semester in office. The review also addressed an anonymous complaint with new allegations of plagiarism, which the Corporation subcommittee deemed to be without merit.
Harvard President Claudine Gay has submitted corrections to two scholarly articles following allegations of plagiarism. An independent review commissioned by Harvard found inadequate citations in a few instances but no violation of research misconduct standards. The corrections involve inserting citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications. The review was initiated before billionaire donor Bill Ackman made his claims of plagiarism, and the Harvard Corporation stated that the review results were reviewed and confirmed by the Fellows.
Harvard President Claudine Gay has submitted corrections to two scholarly articles published in 2001 and 2017 following allegations of plagiarism. An independent review commissioned by Harvard found inadequate citations in a few instances but no violation of research misconduct standards. The corrections involve adding citations and quotation marks to the original publications. The review was initiated before billionaire Harvard donor Bill Ackman made his claims of plagiarism and called for Gay's resignation.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has issued a partial correction to an article that mischaracterized the extent of Hamas and other militant groups' cryptocurrency funding for terrorist activities. The article initially claimed that Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) raised $93 million in crypto between August 2021 and June 2023, but blockchain forensics firm Elliptic clarified that only $450,000 was sent to a known terrorism-affiliated wallet. The WSJ's correction stated that PIJ and Hezbollah may have exchanged up to $12 million in cryptocurrency since 2021. Elliptic welcomed the corrections but called for more specificity. The WSJ's misinterpreted data was also cited in a letter by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, prompting calls for a retraction.
A meta-analysis of 74 experiments involving 60,000 participants conducted by University of Pennsylvania social psychologists and communication scholars found that attempts to correct science-relevant misinformation were, on average, not successful. However, corrections worked better when the issue in the correction was emotionally more positive than the misinformation, the correction matched the ideology of the recipients, the issue was not politically polarized, and the correction provided abundant details as to why the earlier claims were false.