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Rando's avatar

Why though? Why do this?

Dallas Wood's avatar

What a shame! It would help if universities took research misconduct more seriously, but I don't think administrators have enough incentive to care without some external pressure like bad press.

Michael Magoon's avatar

Wow! This is jaw-dropping.

To think that someone could add a non-existent election to the TITLE, and think that they could get away with it!

As soon as I saw “ 1918 Ottoman Constitutional Elections”, my Spidey sense started tingling.

Virginia Postrel's avatar

And who was the supposed scholar who submitted this paper?

Mark Koyama's avatar

Note yet ready to reveal this publicly but I will do once I have checked in the authors of the fake paper and the author themselves.