Understanding Ethical Failures: The Incremental Process

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1. 28 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Corrected two issues: updated the Purdue Pharma outcome to accurately date the bankruptcy filing to September 2019 (not 2020) and to reflect that the settlement was a contested, evolving framework rather than a settled $8 billion/$6 billion outcome, noting the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the original Sackler non-debtor releases in 2024; and added a cautionary note to the Gino, Ayal, and Ariely (2009) moral-licensing citation given the 2023 data-integrity investigation into several of Francesca Gino's other studies, while noting this specific paper was not identified as part of that investigation as of this writing.

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   The article dated Purdue's bankruptcy to 2020 and presented the settlement figures as final, and cited Gino et al. (2009) without noting the subsequent research-integrity concerns affecting other work by one of its authors.

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   Corrected the bankruptcy date, reframed the settlement as an evolving legal matter given the 2024 Supreme Court ruling, and added an appropriate research-integrity caveat to the Gino citation.

   Why: The bankruptcy date was incorrect and the settlement status has changed materially since 2024; a co-author's other work has been subject to serious, well-documented misconduct findings. Corrections update the facts and add the caveat rather than removing the citation outright, since this specific paper was not confirmed as affected.

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1. Correction 28 July 2026

   Emir Baycan: Corrected two issues: updated the Purdue Pharma outcome to accurately date the bankruptcy filing to September 2019 (not 2020) and to reflect that the settlement was a contested, evolving framework rather than a settled $8 billion/$6 billion outcome, noting the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the original Sackler non-debtor releases in 2024; and added a cautionary note to the Gino, Ayal, and Ariely (2009) moral-licensing citation given the 2023 data-integrity investigation into several of Francesca Gino's other studies, while noting this specific paper was not identified as part of that investigation as of this writing.

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