tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9091218950079982154.post1901272369634609567..comments2024-03-07T15:19:55.343+01:00Comments on Copy, Shake, and Paste: Quick PhDDebora Weber-Wulffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01602911135725939409noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9091218950079982154.post-34026348788720363972014-09-22T17:37:19.057+02:002014-09-22T17:37:19.057+02:00Have you ever heard of the (similar) case of Elena...Have you ever heard of the (similar) case of Elena Ceausescu, the wife of Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu?<br />"Despite leaving grammar school at the age of 14, Ceausescu graduated from the University of Bucharest with a PhD in polymer chemistry and top in a class of 100 women with the honor of summa cum laude. [...] Critics consider it unlikely that a textile worker — especially one whose formal schooling ended at 14 — would have been able to write a thesis in chemistry." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Ceau%C8%99escu)<br /><br />And another page dealing with that case: http://vaisamar.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/the-greatest-intellectual-fraud-in-romanian-history-on-elena-ceausescus-doctoral-dissertation/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com