In order to get one’s priors appropriately calibrated, it is important to know about bad things that people have done. But it is also important to get things right about which specific accusations are really true and which are unfounded.

“Exogeny Karl” defends Economics Job Market Rumors as a useful muckraking site, giving this list of alleged scandals in economics that EJMR helped publicize.

Don’t believe all of these accusations. For example, Claudia Sahm effectively debunks the accusation against her here and here. See also here. This was never a credible allegation.

I’d be glad to hear arguments for or against the truth of any of the other allegations Karl makes.

On Reinhart and Rogoff’s errors, Yichuan Wang and I say our piece in

• After Crunching Reinhart and Rogoff's Data, We Found No Evidence High Debt Slows Growth

• Examining the Entrails: Is There Any Evidence for an Effect of Debt on Growth in the Reinhart and Rogoff Data?

On other aspects of Economics Job Market Rumors, my blog has these posts:

• Matthew Shapiro, Martha Bailey and Tilman Borgers on the Economics Job Market Rumors Website

• Michael Weisbach: Posters on Finance Job Rumors Need to Clean Up Their Act, Too

• Signalling When Everyone Knows about Last-Place Aversion: An Application to Economics Job Market Rumors

• On Being a Good Guy