Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes for His Book - Julie Bosman via NYTimes.com ⇢

Ok, ok. Jonah Lehrer, the writer that I said was the person I most wanted to have dinner with, has completely self-immolated. He has admitted to making up Dylan quotes in Imagine, his best seller, on top of the self-plagiarism in articles for many leading magazines, and now has resigned from the New Yorker in disgrace.

Not to take advantage, but if anyone is looking for a speaker who can talk about the confluence of modern cognitive science and where society is headed, I’m your boy.

30 July 2012 6
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  1. selloutsamizdat reblogged this from stoweboyd
  2. byrdcaleb reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    Ok, ok. Jonah Lehrer, the writer that I said was the person I most wanted to have dinner with, has completely...
  3. kraelik reblogged this from thedebuteffect and added:
    I just saw him speak in April!
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  5. themodernworld said: He was just getting creative with his quotations ;-) … srsly though, it seems like too much work to lie.
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