… perhaps German’s plagiarist ex-Defense Minister – now known for all eternity as Baron von Googleberg – will give it a break. Perhaps he’ll stop trying to get speaking gigs at places like Dartmouth (where an online protest petition forced him to back out) and Yale (where much of his audience got up and left as he began to speak).
To those who say this is shutting down free speech, a Dartmouth professor responds.
“No one debates his right to express his views …Academic institutions are just not the place.”
[She] said that a person who has committed such blatant acts of academic [dishonesty] does not belong in an academic setting like Dartmouth.
“You wouldn’t invite Lance Armstrong to give a talk at a sports academy,” she said.
… “It sheds a bad light on Dartmouth.”
January 26th, 2013 at 10:04PM
http://andrewgelman.com/2013/01/dont-think-of-it-as-duplication-think-of-it-as-a-single-paper-in-a-superposition-of-two-quantum-journals/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StatisticalModelingCausalInferenceAndSocialScience+%28Statistical+Modeling%2C+Causal+Inference%2C+and+Social+Science%29
“Don’t think of it as duplication. Think of it as a single paper in a superposition of two quantum journals.”
(I found this at Newmark’s Door, and I think it’s a stitch)
January 29th, 2013 at 1:29PM
It is outrageous that a plagiarizer be invited onto the hallowed grounds of Dartmouth to corrupt the institution.
http://thedartmouth.com/2012/09/21/news/biden