Meyer was found by his employer to have committed scientific fraud by

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Meyer was found by his employer to have committed scientific fraud by falsifying data. The University of Williamstown, from which Meyer held a PhD, validated this finding and subsequently investigated whether he had falsified data in his doctoral thesis, finding no evidence that he had. But the university decided to revoke Meyer’s PhD anyway.

Which one of the following university policies most justifies the decision to revoke Meyer’s PhD?

Which one of the following university policies most justifies the decision to revoke Meyer’s PhD?

(A) Anyone who holds a PhD from the University of Williamstown and is found to have committed academic fraud in the course of pursuing that PhD will have the PhD revoked.

(B) No PhD program at the University of Williamstown will admit any applicant who has been determined to have committed any sort of academic fraud.

(C) Any University of Williamstown student who is found to have submitted falsified data as academic work will be dismissed from the university.

(D) Anyone who holds a PhD from the University of Williamstown and is found to have committed scientific fraud will have the PhD revoked.

(E) The University of Williamstown will not hire anyone who is under investigation for scientific fraud.

ahabib · Answer

(A) Anyone who holds a PhD from the University of Williamstown and is found to have committed academic fraud  in the course of pursuing that PhD  will have the PhD revoked.
 
Runner-up, however this goes contradictory to what the passage is saying. There is no evidence that this happened  while  in the pursuit of the PhD, however he was rejected anyways.

(B) No PhD program at the University of Williamstown  will admit any applicant  who has been determined to have committed any sort of academic fraud.
 
We're discussing a current employee. Irrelevant.

(C) Any  University of Williamstown student  who is found to have submitted falsified data as academic work will be dismissed from the university.
  Irrelevant. We are discussing an employee situation, not student.

(D) Anyone who holds a PhD from the University of Williamstown and is found to have committed scientific fraud will have the PhD revoked.
   Good.

(E) The University of Williamstown  will not hire  anyone who is under investigation for scientific fraud.
 
He's already hired/an employee, this is irrelevant.

KaranB1 · Answer

IMO D. This answer choice is in line with the prompt.

robu1 · Answer

I think we can eliminate A as no academic fraud was found . However, university validates the scientific fraud.

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

The question requires us to find an option that strengthens/supports the conclusion.

Let us look at what the conclusion is. The question stem itself summarizes the conclusion, which is the decision of the university to revoke Meyer’s PhD.

The passage gives us three pieces of information: 
• Meyer’s employer found that he had committed scientific fraud by falsifying data
• Meyer holds a PhD. from the University of Williamstown
• following the finding by the employer, the University of Williamstown investigated whether Meyer had falsified data in his doctoral thesis but did not find any evidence that he did

The distinction between scientific fraud and academic fraud in the options is important. Meyer’s employer found that he had committed scientific fraud. On the other hand, the university checked to see whether Meyer had falsified data in his thesis, thereby committing academic fraud.

The university found no evidence that Meyer had falsified data in his doctoral thesis, so that means he did not commit academic fraud. That helps us rule out Options A, B, and C.

Option E states that the university will not hire anyone who is being investigated for scientific fraud. The question requires us to find a policy that supports the university’s decision to revoke Meyer’s PhD. It doesn’t mention anything about the university’s plan to hire Meyer. So, Option E can be ruled out too.

Meyer committed scientific fraud after acquiring his PhD. from the University of Williamstown. So, the policy stated in Option D applies to Meyer.

Therefore, D is the most appropriate option.
Jayanthi Kumar.

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