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This. It's a baseline, not the pinnacle. But if you can't even make the baseline properly, are you really fit to have the degree?
by Millennium 13y ago
This. It's a baseline, not the pinnacle. But if you can't even make the baseline properly, are you really fit to have the degree?
- jonlucc 13y agoI think not. They awarded him a degree based on data he presented to them. They found out it was falsified, and in my opinion, that should invalidate the degree they awarded (and probably his grants).
- mildtrepidation 13y agoHaving falsified data doesn't prove outright that he's not qualified for the degree, but in my opinion it does prove that he doesn't deserve it. Unless there is absolutely no code or expectation of ethics in his chosen field, I don't see how this result makes sense. Rewarding such a lack of integrity is a terrible precedent to set. We know this is not the only time people have done something like this, and now people who do this, have done it, or may do it can all see that they may not have as much to worry about since we're now in the practice of shrugging and looking away rather than enforcing any reasonable code of conduct... even the ones that already exist.
- auctiontheory 13y agoin my opinion it does prove that he doesn't deserve it The question isn't whether he "deserves" a PhD - it's whether he earned it. He certainly couldn't earn it with a thesis that relied on fake data.