Ciência falsificada

Guy accused of fabricating earth-shattering study writes epic defense of himself

By Maxwell Tani

The author of a newly retracted gay marriage study claims that he destroyed the data that would prove his findings were legitimate.

On Thursday, the journal that initially published UCLA grad student Michael LaCour's high-profile study, which claimed that opponents of gay marriage could be convinced to support it after a single conversation with someone who identifies as gay, officially retracted it. Earlier this month, several researchers who followed up on LaCour's findings, revealed that data used in the study were essentially nonexistent.

On Friday, LaCour responded in a 23-page paper that attempted to refute the criticisms made by researchers David Broockman, Joshua Kalla, and Peter Aronow.

But it also failed to answer some pretty big questions.

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