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As Sam Leith points out in a short piece in the London Evening Standard, ”the Internet is a modern-day Grub Street… just look at the state of things in the 18th and 19th centuries. People routinely reviewed their friends, or even themselves, at different times in different publications under different aliases. The Times Literary Supplement only abandoned anonymity in 1974.” He continues: “But there’s no infallible way to make sock puppetry impossible, or prevent authors paying for good reviews… this is going to have to be self-policed.”

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publishers of Jonah Lehrer's Imagine, have pulled the book from physical shelves as well as online retailers and in e-book form, after he admitted to making up Bob Dylan quotes. And in case you don't want to hang on to your copy just for giggles, there's good news — you'll get your money back.

Jonah Lehrer resigned his position at the New Yorker today after admitting that he fabricated the Bob Dylan quotes he used in his new best-seller, "Imagine." A young writer flaming out after reaching the top of the profession -- it was impossible not to think about Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who resigned amid scandal in 2003, when plagiarism and fabrication was discovered in his stories. Blair is now a certified life coach at Goose Creek Coaching and Consulting; we called him Monday afternoon to get his sense on journalism's latest cautionary tale. Were you reminded

Jonah Lehrer has long been one of the rising stars of the science writing world. I was a huge fan of his work when he wrote for Wired (a sister publication of Ars) and was happy when he recently left for the New Yorker full-time (again, another Conde Nast publication). That continued rise might be imperiled now.

Jim Romenesko, a well-known media watcher, noticed striking similarities between a piece by Lehrer published last week in the New Yorker, and one that Lehrer wrote for the Wall Street Journal last October.

Amazon's Movers & Shakers, the ranking of books that see the biggest sales increase in the past 24 hours, is dominated by fiction titles on the Kindle side and nonfiction titles on the physical side. As of the morning of February 24, in the Kindle Movers & Shakers list top 10, there was only one nonfiction title: How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. In the physical Movers & Shakers top 10, however, seven of the top 10 were nonfiction titles, including the top six. The book that saw the biggest sales increase on the physical list was Ownership Thinking:

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