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Re:French physicist and media star loses doctorate after pla... by gowld on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:47PM (#48573063)
What if you don't grow intellectually and just slap together a PhD thesis that no one reads?
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Re:French physicist and media star loses doctorate after pla... by bombcar on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:33PM (#48573746)
Then you've benefited nothing beyond the paper and the letters.

It's really the "cheat yourself" problem, except we put some value on that paper and those letters.

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