At Duke, Sally Kornbluth presided over multiple research fraud scandals, retaliation against whistleblowers, and a culture of compliance theater. Instead of accountability, she was promoted—up to Provost at Duke then to President of MIT. This is how the game works: misconduct is buried, bureaucrats protect each other, and the same failed playbook gets exported from one elite university to another. No reform, just rebrand. Until there’s external accountability, corruption doesn’t get punished—it gets promoted.