> > The real charlatans in academia are the many frauds who build > > their whole careers by getting their names put on coauthored > > papers to which they have not legitimately contributed. > That's a sort of embezzlement; but `charlatan' implies > that the *content* of the papers is fraudulent. > Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
It is a sort of charlatanry about the content of your career - you sort of imply you've done a bunch of original stuff by associating yourself with the successful. Fabio
