[lit-ideas] You heard it here first
- From: cblitid@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:40:58 +0100
In the current tradition of various European politicians and
government ministers:
Wishing you all a very Happy Holiday Season with much joy, prosperity
and fulfillment in the New Year.
Chris Bruce
plagiarists'R'us, in
Kiel, Germany
1. Germany's popular defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has
announced his resignation a month after being stripped of his doctoral
title over accusations of plagiarism.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-03-01/german-minister-quits-amid-plagiarism-scandal/1962908
2. The president of Hungary has quit after being stripped of his
university doctorate in a plagiarism scandal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/hungary/9181220/Hungarys-president-steps-down-after-plagiarism-scandal.html
3. The Romanian Education Minister Ion Mang resigned on Tuesday, amid
plagiarism accusations, in order to save the Government from the
effects of the campaign against him, according to him.
http://www.romania-insider.com/romanias-education-minister-resigns-amid-plagiarism-accusations/57337/
4. Yet another German politician has fallen victim to the increasingly
common accusation of academic plagiarism. The German Education and
Research Minister Annette Schavan has been accused of plagiarising
parts of her research in the PhD thesis she wrote in 1980.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/04/german_education_minister_phd_plagiarism/
5. A report in the science magazine Nature suggests more than half of
Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta's doctoral thesis was made up of
copied text.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18505325
Et alia.
On 19-Dec-12, at 3:46 AM, Walter C. Okshevsky wrote:
Wishing you all a very Happy Holiday Season with much joy,
prosperity and
fulfillment in the New Year.
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