It's hard to definitively prove fraud, but this is a shockingly clear case. I cannot fathom a plausible alternative explanation. Dan Ariely faked data. P.S. You simply must read the actual post. It is absolutely riveting. Amazing work from the @datacolada.bsky.social crew. And, also, great writing

Data Colada@datacolada.bsky.social · 5h ago

Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139

What gets me most of all is that if the Dems lose Michigan, the narrative will be that they lost because of the candidate's politics, rather than centrist Dems refusing to vote. But when centrist dems lose THEIR elections, the blame is on non-voters. The double standard is obvious and blatant.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 5h ago

"I have a question about the critical Michigan Senate race: Are centrist Democratic officials and pundits going to spend the next 60 days loudly making the Republican Party’s arguments for them?" from @ryanlcooper.com. prospect.org/2026/09/02/a...

Kudos again to the student-run media investigating & breaking stories of dodgy Epstein-linked academics #EpsteinClass

‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)@katjathieme.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Dan Ariely, psychologist. 4/ bsky.app/profile/bake... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Ari...

A minor Daily Wire personality, Michael Knowles, said something like this a few years back & even then got put on the defensive over saying something genocidal. It was not so long ago NC's Pat McCrory ended his political career over a bathroom ban law. There was a normalization push to get here

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · yesterday

Someday soon hes going to be over and trans folk will continue to exist and, hopefully, thrive, for as long as there are humans on this planet.

JD Vance's behavior follows a classic pattern of racial triangulation that we are familiar with from the War on Terror days: he is positioning himself as a White Savior of a Brown Woman from the Vicious Savage Attacks of a Brown Muslim Man. The NYT credulously adopts this framing:

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h ago

JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149...

Roughly the same as the number of NYT articles about Harvard and elite private colleges vs public universities and community colleges when making sweeping generalizations about trends & problems in “higher education”

Dan Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 5h ago

What's the ratio of op-eds about Claudine Gay paraphrasing someone vs op-eds about Ariely just straight up fabricating data

This is a Leonard Leo Opus Dei issue. Leo donated $1 million to Pine Tree in dark money. An issue created ex nihilo. Why no scrutiny anywhere of Leo? If Collins loses Maine, Leonard Leo is the biggest loser. Period. Supreme Court reform threatens his life’s work. www.axios.com/2026/09/01/m...

Scoop: GOP Super PAC hits Jackson on transgender issues

Republicans are taking the transgender issue into a blue-state Senate race.

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"And she was very, very concerned about the way the Welsh Gender Service made her feel like the enemy for raising these questions." M'am, you were trying to interfere and stop the provision of healthcare to your ADULT child, you very much are the enemy, your do not own your child

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.bsky.social · 10h ago

I am absolutely, 110% confident that the *adult woman* being discussed here has seen multiple psychiatrists and been repeatedly checked for proper understanding of the surgery and its consequences because that's what fucking happens with NHS trans surgery referrals.

There is something kind of bleakly funny about how much time and ink was spilled about how we'd moved past the GWOT and Forever Wars and come to terms with our mistakes and entered a new phase of politics and then every time a Muslim shows appears on TV the media snaps back to 2003 instantly.

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · yesterday

noah smith now bravely coming out in favor of the iraq war

while milo gets to chit chat on TV with clear access to safety and basic needs, the US is flying untold numbers of immigrants to unsafe countries of origin or other countries where they don't speak the language or know anyone.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 20h ago

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

...you very explicitly not only wished it on everyone that wasn't you, you actively sicc'd ICE on children. Like, actual children. In person. There's video. You did that. And even still, here's the thing: this weak motherfucker got off light. Is he dead? Is he in a concentration camp? No.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 20h ago

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22h ago

Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”

The endless takes demanding "moderation" from Democrats never spell out precisely how this message is supposed to be delivered. "I am pro-trans but not too pro-trans" looks to the left like you are anti-trans and to the right like you are not anti-trans enough.

Everybody's rightfully shitting on this project but it just blows my mind how the richest people on earth are also some of the least cultured. Some executive at Paramount was presented with "be kind to the less fortunate lest you leave a trail of misery" and went NOW HANG ON A MINUTE

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 2d ago

The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...

The problem with having very few reporters working who’ve covered sports for a decade and anti trans political developments for a decade is anytime there’s discourse it takes like six extra pieces to show how all the groups coalesce towards defunding public schools and repealing Title IX.

Rachel Cohen Booth@rcobooth.bsky.social · 2d ago

this new Heritage Foundation report is much broader than "protect women's sports". It argues Title IX imposed a male model of competition on women, encouraged us to become dominant and aggressive, and pulled us away from traditional femininity and motherhood

In a functioning democracy, the public would be alarmed if the president boasted that he was “able to break the court system a little bit."

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d ago

Q: “Last month DHS recorded a record number of deportations. What changed to make that possible?” Trump: “We just were able to break the court system a little bit. We had judges that were very hostile.”

Fascists are bullying doctors into stopping trans healthcare using I dunno, roughly the same playbook that was used to intimidate and bully abortion providers, in my view. Pure evil.

Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 2w ago

The “Wolves” report, starting with its incendiary title, appears intended to intimidate providers and medical administrators by making veiled (and not so veiled) threats to retaliate against them for any care that MAGA opposes, which is effectively all care for trans people.🧵

Conservatives don't believe in social science because they CAN'T believe in social science because the social sciences prove quite conclusively that their entire worldview is wrong When they attack "academia", what they are attacking is the people who sit around proving that they're full of shit

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2d ago

But, I think it's also important to understand the dual purpose behind creating documents like this. Because, if you focus on just the anti-trans intent and the shoddiness of the work, you might lose track of this: Conservatives don't believe in social science.

The "everyone who opposes Israel is antisemitic" to antisemitism pipeline is like 2 feet long and frictionless

✨[redacted]✨@britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3d ago

what a weird thing to request

This. Also, not for nothing, but it's worth noting that both pollsters and researchers consistently find that one of the most reliable protective factor against anti-trans disinformation is just...knowing a trans person, interpersonally (read: beyond just on hellsites like this).

sasha@2damntrans.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s also a problem ofc that there aren’t all that many of us and most cis people don’t know trans people, or at least don’t know us well. it’s the perfect environment for bad actors to just lie their way into manifesting the eliminationist political approaches and “guidance” that they want.

It's worth noting that this is also true of most "gender critical" women, for that matter, they simply believe that they (GC women) are those who will occupy the paternalistic/protector role of the "vulnerable" rather than GC men because they are also hostile sexists (just like GC men).

sasha@2damntrans.bsky.social · 3d ago

But as I’ve said before “gender critical” men are “benevolent“ sexists. That most cis women don’t share their views is neither here nor there for them: they think that they know better, that they must intervene to protect cis woman *from herself*, as much as from the imaginary trans woman predator.

“My marriage ended because I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife and my daughter” - I can’t get over this line. How does he not see the problem here lol

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 3d ago

*looks to camera*

"But I promise you, students want real educations and will come for them, rather than be forced to listen to a CEO tell them that capitalism rocks." It's beyond time for universities to defend their worth in broader terms than just make more $$

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d ago

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

@mattyglesias.bsky.social *is* right about a welfare state not being a cure all, i've made that point myself frequently but i'd like to see a bit more contrition from his side, for what their philosophy has done to vulnerable minorities & the uk in general www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

liberalcurrents.com

He better than me, cause if I were spoken to like this I would have said things that haunted this person for life and then left the building.

Cleg@clegggg.bsky.social · 4d ago

this is a pretty wild exchange with someone seemingly in a moderator position

For many, today is the last weekend before school restarts. Sorting uniform, finding books, preparing to be reunited with friends. For my kid, who won't be returning to school, it is a time of huge uncertainty. We don't yet have a clear path forward. English schools are no longer a viable option.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

the objection was never indoctrination; it was that someone else was allegedly doing it. That's their job, see?

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d ago

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

Not for nothing, but having read the report itself, I want folks to bear in mind that all of this--literally all of this--is based on correlations calculated between variables that violate assumptions of the statistical tests conventionally used to calculate correlations.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d ago

This report is totalitarian pseudo-science, aka corrupted science in the service of far-right authoritarianism. Who commits most of the political violence in this country has been clear for decades. It's not the left. It's not those of us who support trans rights and realities.

this is more or less how I feel about the tendency in academia to reward *only* "big" arguments or "field-defining" work, much of which is inevitably synthesis

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3d ago

I think it just misunderstands what a good reporter gets from a good outlet, and vice versa. Feels very Ayn Rand/Galt’s Gulch. Individual superstars going off to start their own substack can basically only become commentators on other people’s underlying work.