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Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Harvard, however, will still face trial over how it managed the investigation.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.259933/gov.uscourts.mad.259933.74.0.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

While the suit against Harvard will go on, the court has ruled that evidence-backed conclusions regarding fabricated data cannot constitute defamation—which is probably a very good thing for science.

The fact that someone even filed that nonsense...

But yeah, pretty easy ruling.