Star Harvard business professor stripped of tenure, fired for manipulating data in studies on dishonesty

A renowned Harvard University professor was stripped of her tenure and fired after an investigation found she fabricated data on multiple studies focused on dishonesty.

Francesca Gino, a celebrated behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School, was let go after the school’s top governing board determined she tweaked observations in four studies so that their findings boosted her hypotheses, GHB reported.

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Don’t forget vegans when catering for the apocalypse, ministers urged

Vegans and Muslims must be catered for in a possible food apocalypse, experts have said, warning that Britain is woefully unprepared for “shocks” to the supply chain.

Professor Tim Lang, a professor of food policy, said that if there was, for example, a cyberattack or Russian assault that knocked out Britain’s “vulnerable” food chain, ration packs would need to offer comfort.

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Britain is world’s second most potty-mouthed nation

Britons are the second most prolific swearers in the world, behind only the Americans, a study has found.

Profanity is commonplace in language globally and is often used to emphasise a point, accent a sentence, or as a form of stress and pain relief.

A new analysis of 20 English-speaking nations compared the frequency of swear words in the language and analysed almost two billion words on 1.8 million different websites.

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WARMINGTON: If a grenade doesn’t go off in a crowd, does it mean it wasn’t real?

Hundreds of armed police officers, 56,000 participating in the Walk With Israel, and one pro-Hamas supporter with a hand grenade.

It was quite a sight — and, thankfully, there was no terror attack.

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