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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 30, 2015 · Michael J. LaCour apologized for misrepresenting some aspects of the study about the effect gay canvassers can have in changing people’s minds about same-sex marriage.
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.
May 30, 2015 · Michael LaCour, who claimed a 20-minute conversation with a gay person 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 verify his work.
May 20, 2015 · “We were shocked and disheartened when we learned yesterday of the apparent falsification of data by independent researcher Michael LaCour,” Fleischer added in a statement.
May 28, 2015 · The retraction comes without the agreement of the paper's lead author, Michael J. LaCour, a political science Ph.D. student at the University of California (UC), Los Angeles.
