That last satisfaction at the end of the career  November 7,
2012   I just finished reading an amusing but somewhat
disturbing article by Mark Singer, a reporter for the New Yorker
who follows in that magazine’s tradition of writing about
amiable frauds. (For those who are keeping score at home, Singer
employs a McKelway-style relaxed tolerance rather than Liebling-
style pyrotechnics.) Singer’s topic was a midwestern dentist
named Kip Litton who fradulently invented a side career for
himself as a sub-3-hour marathoner. What was amazing was not so
much that Litton lied about his accomplishments but, rather, the
huge efforts that he undertook to support these lies. He went to
faraway cities to not run marathons. He fabricated multiple
personas on running message boards. He even invented an entire
marathon and made up a list of participants.  This got me
thinking about Ed Wegman (sorry!), the statistician who got
tangled in a series of plagiarism scandals. As with Litton, once
Wegman was caught once, energetic p