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by nvm0n2 899 days ago
> The matter was seemingly systematically ignored for almost 30 years until she pissed off the wrong people

This seems to be standard in academia. The president of Stanford was found to be a fraud through work he'd done years or decades earlier, it only came to light after an undergraduate went on the attack. How did nobody notice beforehand? Turned out that the had noticed and it'd all been swept under the table.