Eh, plagiarism stories are a dime a dozen. UD bothers with this one – about a high-ranking Czech politician’s master’s thesis – only because what he did is even more lame/brazen than usual.
“The thesis has no footnotes… Also, there is a very limited bibliography from which the author allegedly drew …,” [an academic reviewer said]. “Of course, he only really drew from … two works … — … word for word.”
(What with everyone filming everyone these days and putting it on YouTube, UD thinks it would be kind of cool to watch one of these theses in process. Mlejnský (or whoever he’s paying to do the job) sits at a desk, opens the standard history of Charles University, scans its chapters, prints them out… Okay, not visually exciting at all. But haven’t you ever wondered how people look and what they say as they plagiarize? Is Mlejnský laughing that ah-hahahaha! scoundrel laugh as he bears down on each bundle with a big stapler?)
Our man Mlejnský points out, reasonably enough, that “My thesis advisor, who helped me prepare the work, said it was acceptable or good.” Magister M. got his MA here, and UD‘s been trying to figure out which of its MA-granting moving parts Mlejnský mlastered. She thinks it has to be Andragogy.