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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Hi,<br>
<br>
just to weigh in. I was also quite bemused by Valia's response to
Stefan's outraged outreach to the communities that are important
to him.<br>
<br>
Sure, it is an uncomfortable thing. But, that is because
plagiarism itself is uncomfortable. if there is suspicion of
plagiarism, it should be aired and the communities that are
impacted should be alerted (i.e., potential reviewers, editors,
etc. should be on the look-out). So I also don't think Stefan
should be spending time trying to justify himself. <br>
<br>
What he should definitely do in addition to alerting us, is to
alert the university this lady is at and ask for an inquiry. (it
is also interesting that her German falters quite a bit in the
bits that are not colored in, i.e., that are not from other people
--- classic sign of plagiarism). <br>
<br>
I know of two cases at my university where a PhD was rescinded in
retrospect. One involved fabrication of data, the other involved
plagiarism from a number of different works. The dissertation
plus a peer-reviewed journal article (!) liberally used stuff from
other scholars. The plagiarism came out when a reviewer who had
been asked to review the dissertation as a possible book
publication was surprised to be reading very familiar words ---
the reviewer's own. The reviewer alerted the publisher, who
alerted the university, who conducted an inquiry and ended up
declaring the dissertation invalid.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Miriam<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/30/14 2:24 PM, Dorothee Beermann
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:53380D06.5090901@ntnu.no" type="cite">Hi all,
<br>
<br>
After Stefan's posts there seems to be no doubt that this is a
case
<br>
of plagiarism. Discussions of the case, and the presentation of
evidence add to
<br>
reveal a case of serious academic misconduct, which if pursued
might have serious consequences for -------------.
<br>
<br>
<br>
I therefore not only thank Stefan, but also Valia for this
discussion
<br>
<br>
It seems to me that -------------- university is the right
institution to look into this case.
<br>
<br>
Dorothee
<br>
<br>
PS. I can not detect a gender issue.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Dear Valia, and colleagues,
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">I personally feel (from the first moment
I read the original message)
<br>
extremely uncomfortable that all this sensitive info is being
discussed on
<br>
a mailing list, and we are all implicitly/explicitly being
asked to pass
<br>
judgements on the scientific deeds and the quality of such
deeds of a
<br>
(female) person, and to take sides. Is she a member of any of
the lists
<br>
where the original email went to? How can she participate in
the
<br>
discussion and get the chance to defend herself, if there is
anything to
<br>
defend and if she can? I am really sorry to say this. I
strongly believe
<br>
that such issues should be taken to and resolved by justice
bodies/courts:
<br>
defaming someone is bad an offence as plagiarism.
<br>
</blockquote>
if this were about defaming and taking sides, I'd fully agree.
But the
<br>
thread instead is about discovering and sharing hard evidence
that
<br>
someone working in the field has systematically copy-pasted an
entire
<br>
paper and apparently more works.
<br>
<br>
How is the research community supposed to react to the
publication and
<br>
electronic distribution of such blatantly plagiarized work if
not by
<br>
making it public? (Relatedly, journals also publish reviews of
other
<br>
publications, publicly pointing out their virtues and
shortcomings.)
<br>
The alternative idea of taking up such an intellectural property
<br>
rights case in front of a court as far as I'm aware is not a
realistic
<br>
solution (e.g., the IPR violation caused no or minimal financial
<br>
damage).
<br>
<br>
It seems crucial to alert the linguistics community that more
<br>
attention apparently needs to be paid to the reality of blatant
<br>
plagiarism. Until Stefan's post it seemed that nobody would
bother to
<br>
seriously plagiarize in such a highly-focused, academic field
(outside
<br>
of student term papers).
<br>
<br>
Best,
<br>
Detmar
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
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