Adding on to this: Ariely at one point in time bandied around this unfounded claim about how roughly half (!) of dentists willfully misinterpret medical images in order to fill cavities that don't exist, quoting Delta Dental. But:
> “But according to Dr. Ariely, he was basing his statement on a conversation he said he had with someone at Delta Dental,” said Pyle. “But he cannot cite Delta Dental in making that claim because we don’t collect any data like that which would come to such a conclusion.”
> So what happened?
> Ariely said he got that 50 percent figure from a Delta source who told him about “some internal analysis they have done and they told me the results. But they didn’t give me the raw data. It’s just something they told me.”
> Ariely did not provide the name of the Delta medical officer, whom Ariely said was not interested in talking with me."
> “But according to Dr. Ariely, he was basing his statement on a conversation he said he had with someone at Delta Dental,” said Pyle. “But he cannot cite Delta Dental in making that claim because we don’t collect any data like that which would come to such a conclusion.”
> So what happened?
> Ariely said he got that 50 percent figure from a Delta source who told him about “some internal analysis they have done and they told me the results. But they didn’t give me the raw data. It’s just something they told me.”
> Ariely did not provide the name of the Delta medical officer, whom Ariely said was not interested in talking with me."
[1] https://www.wbur.org/npr/131079116/should-you-be-suspicious-....