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leephillips 3 hours ago

Too bad Harvard doesn’t have similarly high standards.

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ksd482 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you elaborate ?

Recently a Harvard president, Claudine Gay was sacked.

Also Francesca Gino was also punished for her (alleged still ? ) fabrication of data.

So what's the problem ?

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leephillips 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The problem is that Claudine Gay was not sacked, she was allowed to resign as president and is still, at this moment, a professor at Harvard. Here is her faculty web page:

https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/claudine-gay

So Harvard employs, as a full professor, someone whose Ph.D. thesis contained loads of plagiarism (I’ve seen the evidence, it’s not contestable). A similar offense on the part of the students who sit in her classroom, according to Harvard’s own rules, could lead to expulsion.

EDIT: Also, as pointed out in a comment below, Prof. Gay’s Ph.D. is from Harvard. It was not revoked.

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ksd482 an hour ago | parent [-]

I wonder in the case of Francesca Gino, how much of that was driven by Harvard.

I remember it was technically initiated by the Harvard business school, but it was probably triggered by data colada launching their own investigation.

This speaks to your point.

	▲	leephillips 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Unfortunately I’m not familiar with this case.

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TMWNN 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Recently a Harvard president, Claudine Gay was sacked.

But Gay's PhD was not revoked.