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The academic is accused of dreaming up the prize he went on to win and has been suspended from his university.

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

Dude didn’t know when to stop and awarded one to a Romanian colleague, which got reported in the news.

Then this genius held a conference on fake news and people started asking about his own fake news.

[–] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago