As with most plagiarism cases, Jane Goodall’s plagiarism, and – see this post’s quotation – sloppiness, is far worse than initially thought.
As with most plagiarism cases, Jane Goodall’s plagiarism, and – see this post’s quotation – sloppiness, is far worse than initially thought.
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March 28th, 2013 at 3:21PM
Famous people don’t always know when to bow out gracefully. At age 78, Jane Goodall may well be developing some cognitive slippage. That could account for such an egregious and sloppy error of attribution. Call it failure of declarative memory or call the entire episode failure of frontal lobe control, this may be the signal for her to exit the stage.
March 28th, 2013 at 4:13PM
My guess is that Goodall has never seen the sentence before. I think her research assistant probably wrote most of the book.
March 28th, 2013 at 5:09PM
I think that’s right, but it all seems out of character with the earlier persona. I recall her bravery when she was taken hostage by soldiers in Tanzania in the late 1960s. It’s possible this is a case of an aging icon being used by those who have long feasted off her success.
March 28th, 2013 at 7:07PM
Correction: Jane Goodall was not actually taken hostage when her camp was overrun by Zairean bandits. She was away from the camp on account of an illness. I stand by the comment about her bravery.