Dive Summary:
- The visiting professor at University of New Mexico who tweeted a fat-shaming message to potential PhD candidates and then tried to excuse it as "research" is being censured by the university.
- The university concluded that this tweet wasn't research: "Dear obese PhD applicants: If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth."
- Geoffrey Miller must apologize to his colleagues and the psychology department and have his work monitored.
From the article:
... "The board concluded that Miller’s tweets were self-promotional in nature and did not follow research criteria which require specific research questions or hypotheses, systematic methods for collection quantitative and/or qualitative data and criteria for selecting respondents," the university's review board wrote ...