Plagirism again, please join the discussion on research gate

[Dorothee Beermann]

Hi all,

After Stefan's posts there seems to be no doubt that this is a case
of plagiarism. Discussions of the case, and the presentation of evidence 
add to
reveal a case of serious academic misconduct, which if pursued might 
have serious consequences for -------------.


I therefore not only thank Stefan, but also Valia for this discussion

It seems to me that ----------------  university is the right 
institution to look into this case.

Dorothee

PS. I can not detect a gender issue.




Dear Valia, and colleagues,
>> I personally feel (from the first moment I read the original message)
>> extremely uncomfortable that all this sensitive info is being discussed on
>> a mailing list, and we are all implicitly/explicitly being asked to pass
>> judgements on the scientific deeds and the quality of such deeds of a
>> (female) person, and to take sides. Is she a member of any of the lists
>> where the original email went to? How can she participate in the
>> discussion and get the chance to defend herself, if there is anything to
>> defend and if she can? I am really sorry to say this. I strongly believe
>> that such issues should be taken to and resolved by justice bodies/courts:
>> defaming someone is bad an offence as plagiarism.
> if this were about defaming and taking sides, I'd fully agree. But the
> thread instead is about discovering and sharing hard evidence that
> someone working in the field has systematically copy-pasted an entire
> paper and apparently more works.
>
> How is the research community supposed to react to the publication and
> electronic distribution of such blatantly plagiarized work if not by
> making it public? (Relatedly, journals also publish reviews of other
> publications, publicly pointing out their virtues and shortcomings.)
> The alternative idea of taking up such an intellectural property
> rights case in front of a court as far as I'm aware is not a realistic
> solution (e.g., the IPR violation caused no or minimal financial
> damage).
>
> It seems crucial to alert the linguistics community that more
> attention apparently needs to be paid to the reality of blatant
> plagiarism. Until Stefan's post it seemed that nobody would bother to
> seriously plagiarize in such a highly-focused, academic field (outside
> of student term papers).
>
> Best,
> Detmar


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