ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The University of New Mexico says a psychology professor's tweet that people battling obesity don't have the willpower to finish doctorate degrees wasn't part of any research project as he claimed. KOB-TV reports the school's institutional review board found that Geoffrey Miller's tweet was instead “self-promotional.''
Miller wrote on Twitter last month that obese doctoral applicants who don't “have the will power to stop eating carbs'' won't “have the willpower to do a dissertation.'' The tweet has since been deleted and his Twitter account has been made private. He later apologized and said the tweet was part of a research project.
Miller is on leave from UNM while serving as a visiting professor at New York University. UNM officials say the school is conducting a disciplinary investigation.
