<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051030/ap_on_sc/professor_fired%5B/url%5D">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051030/ap_on_sc/professor_fired</a>
How a scientist and now ex-MIT prof who fabricated scientific articles and research journals can get through Caltech's undergraduate school "system" without getting noticed completely baffles me. Can someone please clear up the facts about this story??? It makes you almost doubt the sound judgment of some of these members of higher-level academia.</p>
<p>Er... I can't find any reference to Parijis being an undergraduate at Caltech -- he was here from 1998 to 2000 which sounds like a postdoc term to me.</p>
<p>Every top-level university is susceptible to having some frauds; there has been an academic integrity scandal at nearly every "top ten" U.S. school in the past 10 years. Given how much academia is based on the honor code, it surprises me that there isn't more fraud.</p>
<p>Yeah, he was a postdoc in Baltimore's lab (although I believe there's no indication that he committed fraud while at Caltech). He did his PhD at Harvard; I haven't seen it mentioned where he did his undergrad.</p>
<p>What loser.....</p>
<p>I'd assume it happens nearly everywhere, but with the kind of clout a top university would have, it's given a lot more media attention.</p>
<p>I think he must have been an intelligent guy... definitely smart and cunning enough to fabricate things that other intellectuals in academia readily believed.</p>
<p>-Jared</p>
<p>Hey, I need a job, is MIT looking for some profs?</p>
<p>I have amazing stats and i will probably find the theory of everything.</p>
<p>Also, I might even graduate from high school.....</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>haha sr6622.</p>
<p>you crack me up</p>