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> This was one part of the Duke scandal (the fraud was much worse, but the Excel was sloppy)… Apparently a reference to Former Duke Cancer Researcher Anil Pott
by tod222 13y ago
> This was one part of the Duke scandal (the fraud was much worse, but the Excel was sloppy)…
Apparently a reference to Former Duke Cancer Researcher Anil Potti. [1][2]
> …put egg on some Harvard Econ prof's faces - to the delight of the UMASS grad student that found it...
Likely referring to the Reinhart/Rogoff spreadsheet error discovered by Thomas Herndon. [3]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Potti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Potti
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/anil-potti-duke-cancer-fraud-university-research_n_1273264.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/anil-potti-duke-can...
[3] http://chronicle.com/article/UMass-Graduate-Student-Talks/138763/ http://chronicle.com/article/UMass-Graduate-Student-Talks/13...