UD can’t get too excited about the gathering Zizek plagiarizes from a “white nationalist hate group” magazine storm. As the editor of Critical Inquiry (which published what UD is pretty certain will turn out to be only the first widely known piece of plagiarism from Zizek) admits, the guy did indeed plagiarize, and from a most unlikely source…
Yet what is in this story that isn’t already there in the Jonah Lehrer, Johan Hari, Chris Hedges, Stephen Glass, Phil Jacob, Jason Blair, etc., etc., etc. story?
We seem to like to be fooled. Bernard Madoff’s returns were outrageously too good to be true. Didn’t stop everybody from investing with him.
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UD thanks Dave for tipping her off to the story.
July 11th, 2014 at 7:39PM
http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/08/sage-publications-busts-peer-review-and-citation-ring-60-papers-retracted/
July 11th, 2014 at 9:58PM
Sebastian Frank pegged it, far back in the day:
Mundus vult decipi. The world delights to be deceived.
July 12th, 2014 at 8:38AM
This just in: Historians admit to inventing ancient Greeks.
July 12th, 2014 at 9:23AM
“We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up.” That covers quite a bit of what my blog chronicles. A big chunk of stem cell research in particular seems motivated in this way…
July 12th, 2014 at 11:20AM
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/04/oliver-sacks-on-memory-and-plagiarism/