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"My reputation grows with every failure," said Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. And that was before the Internet. shaw would no doubt be amazed by how quickly electronic bulletin boards such as Facebook and Twitter can now spread the word of deeds both good and bad. Take the example of Anil Potti, a cancer specialist who resigned his post at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, last year after it was revealed that he had lied on his CV about being a Rhodes Scholar, and whose research, which had been the basis for clinical cancer trials, was called into question.