I'm posting this here because of it has several elements of previous scandals at UMN.
1. Plagiarism. Submitting work done by someone and claiming it is your work.
2. Hiding results of internal investigations. Not unlike the AstraZeneca drug trial which was systemic and dated from 1993.
3...
Influential U of M public health professor resigns amid plagiarism allegations
Catharine Richert and Matt Sepic
Minneapolis
April 15, 2025 6:19 PM
A nationally known public health researcher is leaving her job next month at the University of Minnesota amid accusations of plagiarism.
Rachel...
This. So much this.
Both Ben and Richard treated their team like a factory with a production line. You examine the pieces as you go along. If a piece you had already looked at comes back around, then there is a prejudice that it can't have changed and had been put back in the production line...
I grew up in Brooklyn Center, just west of Brookdale and went to Robbinsdale High School (R.I.P.). Crystal was part of my stomping grounds if only to travel back and forth.