Overview

• The probe, launched in 2021 after Data Colada posts flagged irregularities, involved reviewing her data, emails, and manuscripts and enlisting an outside forensic firm.
• Investigators concluded that at least four co-authored papers published between 2012 and 2020 contained manipulated data to support hypotheses on honesty.
• Gino earned approximately $1 million annually as one of Harvard’s top-paid faculty members and became the first professor to lose tenure since the 1940s.
• She denies any wrongdoing and filed a $25 million defamation suit against Harvard, Dean Srikant Datar, and Data Colada bloggers, though a federal judge dismissed her claims in September 2024.
• The case has spotlighted concerns over the replication crisis in social sciences and intensified calls for stricter oversight of academic research.