Entirely justified, should have happened sooner.

The problem is not that they were calculating this dogshit, the problem is, they were claiming to use the exact same methodology as Turkstat for the calc of this dogshit, and they weren& #39;t. Not even close. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-08/turkish-researchers-face-fines-for-publishing-own-inflation-data">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...

At the time I argued for removing him from his university post and his academic titles. So what& #39;s happening now is not enough tbh.

@TurkWonk and I can& #39;t say I find the headline appropriate here. They don& #39;t face fines for publishing their own data, they face fines for fraud and libel.

See this thread for how I feel about people who claim to calculate their own CPIs. This is unfortunately a global phenomenon. https://twitter.com/twittarmatthaus/status/1322584980984336385?s=19">https://twitter.com/twittarma...