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The anonymous professor who wasn’t

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  1. viridian
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    Man, this story is wild, and brings back memories of a much younger, more community focused internet. While the article cites Munchhausen's by internet being a growing trend, I definitely saw my...

    Man, this story is wild, and brings back memories of a much younger, more community focused internet. While the article cites Munchhausen's by internet being a growing trend, I definitely saw my lion's share of it in the mid 2000's in the Atheist/ScienceBlogs community, where this whole ordeal with fake people who exist for the aggrandizement of others happened 3 or 4 times. They inevitably got seriously sick or died, or something, never vanished without a trace. Very strange to see a resurgence of that sort of thing.

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