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This doesn't translate well to Dutch academia, where Stapel was working. Private funding is an irrelevant percentage of their income, and each school, prestigious or not, gets the exact same amount of money per student. The man had a tenure and kept doing it. He loved the media attention, loved appearing in TV shows to talk about every remarkable finding he published. He was more in the business of producing mass entertainment than knowledge, and simply didn't want to take the time to actually conduct the experiments his papers were supposedly based on.

To this day he continues to write more episodes to his reality TV show at a staggering pace. He has been writing books about how ashamed he is and keeps begging journalists to interview him about his downfall. I'm sure reading an article about himself in the New York Times gave him a massive hardon.

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Yeah part of me thought, as I was reading the NYT article, why am I supporting this guy's personality disorder by reading what amounts to an extended biography of him?