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Is the air-brushing of history acceptable?
Sent to General Experts May 13 05:26 PM

A UK Dr of Philosophy reviews a conference paper and eulogises its quality only to discover a month later that the paper is a fake written to effectively demonstrate his ignorance. The Dr then goes to great lengths to erase any internet trace that the paper was ever given at the conference.
Is this acceptable behaviour from an academic?
The mistake can never be entirely erased away and the attempt to air-brush history seems worse than making the initial mistake?

 

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