Michael LaCour

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. The article was published in the academic journal Science in December 2014, and retracted in May 2015 after it emerged that the data in the study had been forged by LaCour. The article purported to demonstrate that peoples minds on the issue of gay marriage could be changed by conversations with gay canvassers, but not with straight canvassers.

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