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Impressive that his two professors took 1 whole month to finally believe him, even though the article gives the impression that the error was obvious (a bad formula).

Summary of the article: http://tldr.io/tldrs/5171189e1a18dac804000170/meet-the-28-ye...

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It sounds like they grilled him until they got co-authorship for a paper with a with an uber high impact factor.

I suspect that without their co-authorship people wouldn't have read it. I'm not in the academic field but isn't it a signal that they back his work enough to put their name (and reputation) to it?

Is it good for your career to get high impact factor for a paper that admits that your most famous work was a fraud that destroyed the economy of several nations?

His co-authors are not those who fucked up the original study.

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