Congratulations for driving a faker out of academia!

Maung Zar Ni is a popular fellow at this hall of shame. Let us reflect this as a case study. For the knowledge of our readers we will report you as a whole as we have been presenting you piece after piece.

Since early 2000s, we have learned that there is no thesis of Maung Zar Ni at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But we did not pay attention. However, our suspicions grow, alarm bells in our scholarly bodies rang, and signals that there is a faker out there amplified in recent years. We got gut feelings that he is faking PhD after reading articles after articles of his unbalanced lope-sided writings in popular on-line publications. His writings, anything but scholarly, prompted us to start investigating him. When we were quite certain that he is very likely to be a fake, we have given him
a chance to prove himself otherwise. We offered that if he can send his thesis, we will remove him from this hall of shame of faking PhDs. To make sure that we did our research right and presented our case clearly to you via this blog. We have presented our research question, methodology, tools, findings, conclusions here. Therefore, till now, our stand remains the same, until he sends us his PhD thesis, he is a fake PhD for us.

Recently, it seems to us that we are seeing some progresses ranges from uncommitted replies from administrators from the US, UK and ASEAN universities and now the resignation letter of our man with fake PhD. Congratulations to Dr. Nyein Chan, other Drs. and wanna-be Drs who have heavily contributed to this blog to take down a fake PhD, Maung Zar Ni.

We congratulate your efforts such as sending tips, talking to librarian of UW-Madison, checking whether the degree was conferred to the suspect with the university academic director, discussing with HR staff at the London School of Economics, initiating the communication and following up with UBD, getting opinions from few Burmese and foreign academics at London universities and running the plagiarism check of that random collection of sentences and paragraphs in an Adobe Acrobat file which he claims as his PhD thesis. We have read that pdf file but we find it hard to believe it is a thesis, especially from a university like the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a public ivy.

In fact, academia is already tainted by in-competent researchers who cannot publish or publish in fake journals and swamped by un-committed lecturers who cannot teach but merely rumble, so it is unbearable to see fake PhDs doing fake research and tutoring rubbish. So congratulations Drs and Dr Drs.