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Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever – except she was a fraud

by @paperpile paperpile.com published 2021-12-14

If you think that people who deliberately engage in dubious scientific practices like plagiarism, falsification of results, or attendance at fake conferences represent the worst of scientific misconduct—then you have clearly never heard of Elena Ceausescu.

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