If the crowdfunding effort is anything to go by, there is huge sympathy for the data detectives Leif Nelson, Joe Simmons and Uri Simonsohn. The three men — professors of marketing, applied statistics and behavioural science, respectively — have carved out a reputation as defenders of sound scientific research methods. Now they face a lawsuit in the US claiming $25mn for defamation, and the campaign to fund their defence raised over $180,000 in the first 24 hours. The list of donors reads like a Who’s Who of behavioural science, including a $4,900 donation from Nobel laureate Richard Thaler.
從近期一場的眾籌的結果來看，數據偵探萊夫?奈爾森(Leif Nelson)、喬?西蒙斯(Joe Simmons)和烏里?西蒙索恩(Uri Simonsohn)獲得了極大的同情。他們三人分別是市場營銷、應用統計和行為科學教授，以捍衛合理的科學研究方法而聲名鵲起?，F在，他們在美國面臨著一場誹謗訴訟，被索賠 2500 萬美元，而為他們的辯護提供資金的活動在頭 24 小時內就籌集到了超過 18 萬美元。捐款人名單就像行為科學界的名人錄，其中包括諾貝爾獎得主理查德?泰勒(Richard Thaler)的 4900 美元捐款。