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Fudging Credentials

NPR's Brian Naylor and Randy Cohen, the New York Times Magazine ethicist, discuss the dilemma of a listener whose brother fraudulently obtained a PhD from a diploma mill and used the false credential to obtain a teaching post at a major university.

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Randy Cohen
Randy Cohen was born in Charleston, S.C., and raised in Reading, Pa. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts as a music major studying composition.
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