Cracking down on research fraud

Re:Cracking down on research fraud by TuringNYC on Monday July 27, 2020 @07:58AM (#23964245)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_R._Orszag (NOTE: NOT suggesting he cheated, just noting that lots of people have fast-tracks pre-planned for them w/o the hassle of working their way up.)

Not quite running the FED, but look at the years, pretty close.

Orszag earned an A.B. summa cum laude in economics from Princeton University in 1991 after completing an 80-page long senior thesis titled "Congressional Oversight of the Federal Reserve: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives."[11] He then received a M.Sc. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1997) in economics from the London School of Economics.

He served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy (1997–1998), and as Senior Economist and Senior Adviser on the Council of Economic Advisers (1995–1996) during the Clinton administration. Director of the OMB by 2008.

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Re:Cracking down on research fraud by VHRanger on Monday July 27, 2020 @08:28AM (#23964426)

Assistants to the president are often these fresh out of school types.

Obamas speechwriter were in their early 20s as well for instance.

The Fed is way more stringent - - a fresh PhD would be an analyst or research associate, nothing more.

State departments and organizations have a lot more hierarchy for better or worse.

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Re:Cracking down on research fraud by TuringNYC on Monday July 27, 2020 @06:07PM (#23969990)

He was "Senior Advisor" before even graduating. He was a WH Director within 10yrs. Three years later, he was Vice Chairman of a global bank (Citigroup).

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