A hotshot named Dan Ariely

For decades has been kind of smelly

His results don’t repeat

Onaccounta he cheats

And there’s more where that came from —whoa, Nellie!

Professor Jason Arday’s upcoming memoir should remind the Brits that stories too good to be true are almost always too good to be true. Although Simon and Schuster is sticking with its decision to release the book in a few days, it’s increasingly clear that its powerful content has a lot of bullshit to it, just as Arday’s scholarly work seems to have a lot of plagiarism to it.

Whether it’s the Salt Path’s powerful story of overcoming, or Great and Unfortunate’s powerful story of overcoming, we don’t seem able to overcome our powerful need for stories of powerful overcoming. If we were able to overcome this need, we could see hoaxes coming.

As one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, it’s constantly scrambling to find replacements for filthy high-ranking officials stupid enough to get caught.

Makarios Lazaridis was up this month to pinch-hit for one of the Farming Scandal officials suddenly out of a job, but now he’s out too because of his peculiarly Greek personal history.

Last job he had was high-ranking science advisor to the New Democracy education minister; but once elevated to post-farm-scandal Deputy Ag Minister, he attracted enough press attention for someone to notice that he didn’t even have a legitimate BA, much less a PhD.

Oopsies.

I mean ούπς.

But – in the sort of detail your blogueuse LOVES – when Lazaridis left his expert scientist job, he was “instantly [replaced] by his wife.”

Instantly, mes petites!

Psychoeducation! Is there any hilarious piece of shit term the feds won’t accept?

The French have it down to a science.

Will Dana-Farber include in its brag sheet that she left in disgrace, trailed by now-confirmed research misconduct charges? Her West Coast equivalent, busy-bee billionaire Marc Tessier-Lavigne, stepped down in identical disgrace, brought low by a determined student journalist.

The departed CEO of Dana-Farber, and her co-authors, were exposed by some random guy in Wales (now enjoying his 2.63 million dollar award), and I’m sure they felt the same confident contempt for him that Stanford’s prez felt for the student journalist. What can these nothings do to us? We represent (and, with their scuzzy vieux Larry Summers, do they ever) the American elite.

They’ve got a ways to go. I believe the figure for American ultraorthodox Jewish children is one hundred percent.

I’m sure Stanford will get there. Just as Harvard’s endowment will eventually reach one hundred billion, so in the fullness of time all Stanford undergraduates will get there.

It's made me quite vertiginous
To find I'm fake indigenous.
Let's hope - with this new clarity -
The real Canadian Cherokee
Aren't feeling too litiginous.

‘Some say that education consultants provide valuable skills and services to ensure schools can find the right leaders and focus on the right goals. Others say the business is a racket that wields too much influence and lines too many pockets.

[Des Moines Public Schools] has spent six figures of taxpayer money on that business. Now, it will spend boatloads more on attorneys to comb through the damage and shield the district from as much blame as possible for the [Ian] Roberts fallout.

And that’s to say nothing of the expenditure required to find a new superintendent.‘

The ed consulting racket is one of many rackets that made the world safe for Donald Trump. Here’s hoping the current notoriety of its most high-profile racketeer will help shut it all down.

‘Their collaboration has continued with [Ian] Roberts behind bars. [Roberts’ collaborator] said on Sep. 29 she was told by Roberts’ wife to move forward with publishing a book called “Unshakeable,” a compilation of Roberts’ inspirational messages to Des Moines schools.‘

Iowa’s finest, Ian Roberts, committed more than the so far – what? – five thousand? crimes he committed as Des Moines public schools superintendent. He also awarded Des Moines school district contracts to his own side business, which specialized in soaking DEI budgets.

The district did catch one of his early attempts to pocket money in this way; but apparently they failed to catch later, successful, ones.

How stupid is Iowa? MUCH stupider than I ever imagined.

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There’s a DEI sickness at the heart of Iowa’s public schools. It’s why they hired and retained a consummate con man.

Franchement, they got what they deserved. New leadership needed. Desperately.

Your namesake law school is a national embarrassment.

The good folks of Des Moines saw no reason not to hire Ian Roberts as their school superintendent, even though they did no due diligence on his, er, spotty background. Weapons arrests, in the country illegally, lied bigtime about his university degrees.

The lying thing is de rigueur among many school principals (you get a salary bump with a doctorate, and schools don’t seem to mind if, like Roberts, you buy it from an online vendor), but the rest of it makes for an unusually rich brew.

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Charged.

Story jumps to the NYT.

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The schools are suing the recruitment firm that fucked them up.

The Holocaust was somewhere in her have mercy keep me outta jail letter too; plus, even though she did effing EVERYTHING she could think of not to get caught, it turns out she’s full of shame despair and general poignancy when she reflecteth upon her Madoffian crimelife.

Give it a read – Ms Javice basically gets as close as you can get to saying YOU CAN’T JAIL ME I’M A WOMAN!!! — a remarkable sentiment for a person who – until JP Morgan figured out she robbed them of $175 million – was an icon of the tough as nails young financial genius. My grannies are dying! I wanna baby!

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How did I manage to miss this chick earlier?

‘But, How Will She Teach Pilates in an Ankle Monitor?‘

The loopiest litigatrix this side of Liguria just walked into a buzz saw: Harvard is suing her.

Silly boy. Make that utterly unbelievable effects. But after all your field is psychology, currently riddled with fraud, and given all that fraud, you should have acted on your suspicions about those two AMAZING PERSONALITIES, F. Giro and D. Ariely. You worked with them, after all.