Talk:Valery Fabrikant

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This link is currently broken... I don't know whether the condition is temporary or permanent:

• A Psychopath's Online Soapbox, Terminal City article on Fabrikant's usenet postings (August 18, 2005)

--Skyfaller 16:40, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

The source material for this article, and previous articles on Fabrikant in the Gazette (Montreal), indicate that Fabrikant had lied about his academic pedigree: to wit, he has a doctorate in Physics with a concentration in the area of Mechanics; he has never studied nor had a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He had previously been teaching calculus and statistics courses in the Mechanical Engineering department at Concordia University. He had requested a paid sabbatical in Paris, two years in duration when the department asked him which courses he was going to teach in the academic year of 1992 to 1993; the request for a sabbatical was refused and with no preferred courses requested by Fabrikant himself, the department assigned to him to teach a number of courses which any competent mechanical Engineering professor should know how to teach but which Fabrikant himself was utterly unqualified to teach. He was seen wandering around the swimming pool at his apartment building saying over and over again "they are going to kill me. They are going to kill me." Clearly, Fabrikant was terrified that his charade at Concordia was about to end in the most humiliating way possible, in a way that would totally poison his career for good; so rather than face the music, we went on a killing spree.

Does anybody have access to the date of this article? It won an award. It should be cited here so that added context for his actions could be given.

--A Lizard 03:01, 11 Octomber 2006 GMT -5

That makes perfect sense. Fabrikant doesn't do anything, his "charade" is exposed in front of a few people, Fabrikant does what he did, the supposed charade will be exposed in front of the whole country. Yeah, clearly he was terrified about that.

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[edit] His Youtube page

I tried to give a link to his [Fabrikant's] Youtube page, but Wikipedia won't let me. Why not? It is linked on his website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.71.232.5 (talk) 14:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)