Harvard Business School, to its credit, aggressively investigated data-fraud allegations against Francesca Gino that Data Colada first raised, ultimately suspending her last year and thus enduring a lawsuit and the de rigueur allegation that taking action against her was sexist. But if the Data Colada team hadn't done this sleuthing in its spare time, neither HBS nor the journals that published Gino's research would ever have noticed a problem. And in a preview of the defenses we've seen in the Claudine Gay case, the Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig looked past the ample evidence of data fraud to tell The New Yorker that he rejected the allegations against Gino because of who she is: "I'm convinced about her because I know her," he said. "That's the strongest reason why I can't believe this has happened."