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Professor who claimed ancient Malays could fly loses university post (www.asiaone.com)

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Not sure about Malaysia, but in a lot of countries once you get tenure you can just start saying crazy shit, especially when it's completely unrelated to your area of expertise...

Dr Solehah, an Arabic language and linguistics scholar,

Especially with language, it's pretty easy to have a very very narrow range of education. Loads of people move to another country and then become "experts" on their native language.