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Impressive that his two professors took 1 whole month to finally believe him, even though the article gives the impression that the error was obvious (a bad for
by louischatriot 13y ago
Impressive that his two professors took 1 whole month to finally believe him, even though the article gives the impression that the error was obvious (a bad formula).
Summary of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5171189e1a18dac804000170/meet-the-28-year-old-grad-student-who-just-shook-the-global-austerity-movement http://tldr.io/tldrs/5171189e1a18dac804000170/meet-the-28-ye...
- thomasz 13y agoIt sounds like they grilled him until they got co-authorship for a paper with a with an uber high impact factor.
- mattmanser 13y agoI suspect that without their co-authorship people wouldn't have read it. I'm not in the academic field but isn't it a signal that they back his work enough to put their name (and reputation) to it?
- fyi80 13y agoIs it good for your career to get high impact factor for a paper that admits that your most famous work was a fraud that destroyed the economy of several nations?
- thomasz 13y agoHis co-authors are not those who fucked up the original study.