Ahmed Mohamed Didn’t Build a Clock -- and Other Niggling Problems in the Story of Dallas’s Whizkid-of-the-Week

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http://www.nationalreview.com/node/424462/print

 Ahmed Mohamed Didn’t Build a Clock -- and Other Niggling Problems in the Story of Dallas’s Whizkid-of-the-Week
By Ian Tuttle — September 22, 2015

When I wrote about Ahmed Mohamed last week, I chalked up the affair to a few overzealous authority figures — who have peers all over the country. Just ask Josh Welch.

That criticism stands. But as Ahmed enjoys his newfound celebrity — on Monday he was a VIP at a Google science fair, and on Wednesday the family is flying to New York City, where Ahmed will be feted by United Nations dignitaries — the details of the story become, well, curiouser and curiouser.

Over the weekend, a blogger at Artvoice “reverse engineered” Ahmed’s clock from media photographs. His conclusion:

    Somewhere in all of this – there has indeed been a hoax. Ahmed Mohamed didn’t invent his own alarm clock. He didn’t even build a clock. . . . He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. (emphasis original)

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Uh-oh. This author's in real trouble. He used a word with an n, an i and two gg in the title. Big mistake.

[alicewonders]

Uh-oh. This author's in real trouble. He used a word with an n, an i and two gg in the title. Big mistake.

I caught that too.  Winced when I saw it.   

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Uh-oh. This author's in real trouble. He used a word with an n, an i and two gg in the title. Big mistake.

It might be a bit niggardly to point that out.