… you become a laughingstock.
“With the revocation of her Ph.D. title, the life’s work of Annette Schavan has been destroyed. As German education minister, she is the leading figure for professors, postgraduates and students. She has been education minister for more than seven years — education and research are her core values, the basis of her political actions. When now, of all things, it comes to light that the education minister has cheated on her doctoral thesis, it’s as if the finance minister were caught hiding his money in Switzerland or the transportation minister were driving drunk.”