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Apr 7, 2016 · A UCLA grad student named Michael LaCour claimed to have persuaded straight people to support gay marriage with his research. Two Berkeley grad students uncovered his fraud and found a better way to do political canvassing.
"When contact changes minds: An experiment on transmission of support for gay equality" is a fraudulent article by then- UCLA political science graduate student Michael LaCour and Columbia University political science professor Donald Green.
May 29, 2015 · Michael LaCour, a political-science grad student at UCLA, claimed to have conducted a groundbreaking study on gay-marriage persuasion and published it in Science. But David Broockman, a Berkeley student, found out that LaCour faked his data and survey results, leading to a retraction and a scandal.
- Jesse Singal
- Contributor
Jun 2, 2015 · A UCLA grad student, Michael LaCour produced a monumental study about political persuasion. Now he stands accused of fabricating the data. By his own account, Michael J. LaCour has told big...
- Thomas.Bartlett@chronicle.com
- Senior Writer
May 30, 2015 · Michael LaCour, who claimed a 20-minute conversation could change voters' minds on same-sex marriage, apologized for lying about funding and deleting data. His co-author, Donald Green, and his advisors face criticism for failing to check his work.
- Buzzfeed News Science Editor
Jun 3, 2015 · Michael LaCour is a very, very bad scientist. He’s the UCLA PhD candidate at the center of one of the biggest academic scandals in years: he faked a political science study purporting to show...
Jun 9, 2015 · Michael LaCour was a promising young social scientist until his eye-catching study about swaying public opinion on gay marriage, published last year in one of the world’s leading...
