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Bonnbonns…

… might be a good name for doctorates from Bonn University. Judging by one high-profile PhD of theirs, the degree is a bit on the confectionery side.

Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, a rising German politician, has had the doctorate revoked — more than half of it was plagiarized, which is rather a lot.

Copy, Shake, and Paste, a blog devoted to plagiarism, notes that Chatzimarkakis went on tv, before the revocation, to defend himself:

Chatzimarkakis defended himself with, among other things, the argument that the work was “intertextual” and that he was using “Oxford style” quotations, that he learned when he was at Oxford.

It’s intertextual, man. The self is an illusion. Chill.

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As always, UD thanks Chris for alerting her to the latest naughty German.

Margaret Soltan, July 13, 2011 1:56PM
Posted in: plagiarism

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