The University of Minnesota has tried; Lord, how it has tried. But vicious and self-serving theft of other peoples’ work (background here) makes lots of people angry, see, and they speak up and speak up until even cynical administrators who try – insanely, stupidly – to dismiss blatant extensive repeated plagiarism as an ‘honest mistake’ (a phrase destined to haunt the UM school of public health for years to come) have to face the consequences.
Which are: The local public radio station won’t let this disgusting tale of institutional corruption go. Eventually a legitimate scholar/administrator at UM will have to step up and admit the cover-up. Some of the cover-uppers should be fired.