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With Nearly Half of Academic Research Called "Fake," Former Energy Trader Seeks To Keep Them Honest

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Mark Melin
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A former energy trader at Enron, John Arnold, is looking to help fight fake academic studies
In an era when the term “fake news” is a constant politicized weapon on both sides of the debate comes a group of academics who are questioning academic research as “fake.”  With funding from arguably one of the most successful relative value energy traders in history, the effort to keep academic research honest is gaining trend momentum.

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Fake research from pharma to technology and beyond

By some estimates, nearly half of all academic studies are false. A 2014 article in the Boston Globe pinpointed...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.