Davide Dragone

[Marina Della Giusta, EconProf@Unito, European @mardelgiu]

📢📢📢 Why are sex markets gendered? Why is sexual activity declining even as norms liberalize? Finally a general economic theory that unifies paid sex and marriage. 👉 An Economic Theory of Sexual Exchanges and Human Capital @DavideDrag92952 and @EliasCarroni

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

@BrandondelPozo I openly reported all findings. If you see transparency as a loss of credibility, then we have very different definitions of what "losing credibility" means. N/N

[Davide Dragone @DavideDrag92952]

@RiccardoCiacci @SpringerNature I will suggest my junior coauthors to avoid JOPE and avoid receiving the same treatment received by #riccardociacci #econtwitter

[Davide Dragone @DavideDrag92952]

@RiccardoCiacci @SpringerNature This is so worrying and so bad for JOPE's reputation. I thought retractions were the consequence of fraud, not of senior professors not liking certain results #healteconomics #econtwtitter

[Davide Dragone @DavideDrag92952]

@RiccardoCiacci @pietrobiroli

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

I was instructed to remove the word Corrigendum. The article would instead be published under the “Additional Evidence” format. Once both papers were published, the harassment campaign persisted. 8/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

It was also determined that the two articles would be read in tandem (the editor explicitly confirmed this in response to my observation that the new article addressed a different research question and estimated a different target parameter). 7/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

The journal launched an investigation and concluded that no misconduct had occurred. However, I was asked to verify whether the results were influenced by multicollinearity. Ultimately, it was agreed that a Corrigendum would suffice to avoid retraction. 6/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

Why? Their only goal was retraction from day 1. Instead, the same authors submitted a report to the journal requesting the retraction of my article, claiming that the observed effect could stem from a multicollinearity issue in my Stata code. 5/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

I offered to collaborate with these individuals—proposing a joint paper, sharing my code, and using improved Swedish data (which I could not access due to lacking a Swedish affiliation). This would have advanced the field. Their response? Negative. 4/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

either I responded within 5–6 hours, or he would post something on Twitter. Exemplary academic conduct, indeed. 3/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

about my recently published article, as I documented here: https://t.co/JYbJ0mGdfO After other scholars pointed out the inappropriate nature of their tweets, I received an email from one of them, effectively issuing an ultimatum: 2/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

*Chronicle of an Ideological Harassment Campaign Foretold*

This short thread outlines how a harassment campaign overruled a scientific decision made by scholars in a @SpringerNature journal.

In March 2024, two Swedish academics posted harassing tweets 1/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

Let me be clear: had a scientific committee determined the need for a retraction, I would have accepted it. But discovering that the retraction was driven by a prolonged online harassment campaign is profoundly disheartening. 13/N

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

@johannarickne @OlleFolke I think it important to hear the two sides of the story to understand what happened with this article
https://t.co/XzWHRyWawa

[Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social @RiccardoCiacci]

I conduct research in good faith and I feel obliged to report a harassment, character assassination and stalking campaign that has lasted over a year, of which I have been a target. This campaign has been disproportionate and damaging. 1/N