Conservatives cheat more?

3 PhDs lost on right vs. 1 on left, another Merkel minister hit.

It's all over the German press today, the secretary for research and development of Mrs. Merkel's conservative government gets a "return notice" from her Alma mater. She vows to fight the decision.

So far, so bad. We at the K-Landnews looked at the number of fallen politicians and found that three out of four revoked PhDs are conservative, one a leftish pol.

Does this mean that conservatives cheat more than liberals?

Unfortunately, correlation still does not mean causation. In other words, only a handful of titles are revoked each year out of just under 30 000 that are handed out. Statistically, the small sample is not significant.

However, we have a project for all you underemployed psychologists and sociologists out there.

Do conservatives cheat more than liberals?
Or do cheaters become conservatives?
Or do fewer liberals get caught? [lamestream media conspiracy theorists, please start here]
Or are conservatives smarter, meaning that more of them get a doctorate, meaning that more are found to be cheaters?
Or is there a greater general incentive to cheat in a place like Germany, where your doctor title becomes part of your name? [really]

Get back to us with your findings, and earn that Susan B. Anthony dollar we don't seem to be able to raffle off.