Tag: fraud

Rigging the Rankings

By Erik Loomis

In General

On April 18, 2021

My only surprise here is that this guy was caught for rigging the numbers to help out his university’s placement in the idiotic rankings that have come to dominate higher education conversations in this country. The former dean of Temple University’s business school fed false data to U.S. News & World Report for years to […]

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I’m a fraud!

By SEK

On August 13, 2013

I don’t want to steal anyone’s thunder or appear to be piling on, but one aspect of Hugo Schyzer’s “confession” strikes me as especially problematic, especially at a time

Robert Farley

Imaginary Stones to Imaginary Schools?

By Robert Farley

On April 16, 2011

This is one of those things that is disappointing, but not at all surprising: “You would hope that they would be spending a lot more on the schools in Pakistan than they would on book-related co

Nobody Could Have Predicted

By Scott Lemieux

In General

On February 4, 2011

That the latest “sting” from Breitbart/O’Keefe protege Lila Rose would turn out to be a complete fraud. Apparently, the ends justify the means, and in this case the end involves denying less affluent women access to medical care. It’s also instructive that the sting operations being run by O’Keefe and company generally seem to involve […]