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16-09-2014, 07:00 AM
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NUS TO START REVIEWING ALL OF DR SHANKAR’S RESEARCH PAPERS FOLLOWING FAKE PHD SCANDAL
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15 Sep 2014 - 8:52am
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Following the discovery by the West Virginia University (WVU) that ex NUS Associate Professor Dr Anoop Shankar had lied about his credentials and his PhD being fake, NUS has started a review of all the academic publications that he published during the tenure with the university.
(See: NBC News: NUS hired an Associate Professor with a fake PhD (http://therealsingapore.com/content/nbc-news-nus-hired-associate-professor-fake-phd-who-later-moved-us))
An NUS spokesperson had said that “In view of the media reports on Anoop Shankar, NUS has initiated an internal investigation into his research publications when he was at NUS.”
Shankar, an Indian National had been working in the NUS department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine as an associate professor for 4 years. In 2008, he moved to the US and joined WVU. He was later exposed when a professor at WVU was asked to review his resume prior to a proposed promotion.
The professor who made the discovery of Shankar’s fake credentials noted that he had plagiarized some of his academic articles, faked results, and had not in fact graduated from the institutions he claimed to have graduated from.
When NBC news first covered the story, they also got interviews with some of Shankar’s ex colleagues at NUS. Those who they interviewed explained that they had no reason to doubt his credentials and they did not detect any irregularities in the papers that they had personally co-authored with Shankar.
It is not known how many of Shankar’s publications contain fake results and plagiarism and NUS is now trying to find them all out so that any inconsistent papers can be retracted.
It is concerning that in the whole time Shankar was in NUS, he was never discovered until he went to the US. How stringent is NUS’ policy on the hiring of “Foreign Talent”?
Related:
Singaporeans must ask for a nation wide Inquisition (http://therealsingapore.com/content/singaporeans-must-ask-nation-wide-inquisition)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?190103-Nus-to-start-reviewing-all-of-dr-shankar’s-research-papers-following-fake-phd-scandal&goto=newpost).
NUS TO START REVIEWING ALL OF DR SHANKAR’S RESEARCH PAPERS FOLLOWING FAKE PHD SCANDAL
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15 Sep 2014 - 8:52am
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Following the discovery by the West Virginia University (WVU) that ex NUS Associate Professor Dr Anoop Shankar had lied about his credentials and his PhD being fake, NUS has started a review of all the academic publications that he published during the tenure with the university.
(See: NBC News: NUS hired an Associate Professor with a fake PhD (http://therealsingapore.com/content/nbc-news-nus-hired-associate-professor-fake-phd-who-later-moved-us))
An NUS spokesperson had said that “In view of the media reports on Anoop Shankar, NUS has initiated an internal investigation into his research publications when he was at NUS.”
Shankar, an Indian National had been working in the NUS department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine as an associate professor for 4 years. In 2008, he moved to the US and joined WVU. He was later exposed when a professor at WVU was asked to review his resume prior to a proposed promotion.
The professor who made the discovery of Shankar’s fake credentials noted that he had plagiarized some of his academic articles, faked results, and had not in fact graduated from the institutions he claimed to have graduated from.
When NBC news first covered the story, they also got interviews with some of Shankar’s ex colleagues at NUS. Those who they interviewed explained that they had no reason to doubt his credentials and they did not detect any irregularities in the papers that they had personally co-authored with Shankar.
It is not known how many of Shankar’s publications contain fake results and plagiarism and NUS is now trying to find them all out so that any inconsistent papers can be retracted.
It is concerning that in the whole time Shankar was in NUS, he was never discovered until he went to the US. How stringent is NUS’ policy on the hiring of “Foreign Talent”?
Related:
Singaporeans must ask for a nation wide Inquisition (http://therealsingapore.com/content/singaporeans-must-ask-nation-wide-inquisition)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?190103-Nus-to-start-reviewing-all-of-dr-shankar’s-research-papers-following-fake-phd-scandal&goto=newpost).