Peter Woit
EDITORIALEMBO reports (2011) 12, 479, Published online: 1 June 2011Howy Jacobs The scandal surrounding the former German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor von und zu Guttenberg, who resigned after facing accusations of plagiarism in parts of his doctoral thesis, raises troubling issues for all o... READ MORE>>
Editorial Nature 473, Pages:419–420 , Date published:(26 May 2011)A slow university investigation into serious accusations of misconduct benefits no one.As retractions go, it may not look like a big deal. Earlier this month, a statistics journal decided to pull a little-cited 2008 paper on the socia... READ MORE>>
Ivan Pacheco In Germany Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the former Minister of Defense, and Silvana Koch-Mehrin, a Vice-President of the European Parliament, resigned from their positions after plagiarism was discovered in each person’s doctoral dissertation. In the UK, the London School of Econom... READ MORE>>
The recent revelations of plagiarism by prominent Germans wouldn't be possible without the diligent work of an online community called PlagiPedi. They're working to restore the reputation of German doctoral titles.The list of targets for a group of online plagiarism hunters is long: over 200 doc... READ MORE>>
Project on Government Oversight (POGO) asked NIH Director to take a firm stance against ghostwriting by academics who receive taxpayer funded grants. POGO reminds the director of the National Institutes of Health (posted below) that taxpayers provide the NIH with $30 billion annually to fund ... READ MORE>>
By Aisha LabiThe bad news keeps coming for the disgraced former German defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a once-rising star in his country's conservative party. On Wednesday the University of Bayreuth published the full report of its investigation into plagiarism in his 2006 doctoral diss... READ MORE>>
Daniel Mietchen Some brief excerpts from today’s news on matters of plagiarized dissertations in Germany: >>> READ MORE>>
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