plagiarism

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• SOURCE: The Critic
  1/4/2023
  

  "Receptiogate" and the Bad Incentives in Academic Research

  by Charlotte Gauthier

  A case of academic theft that might otherwise be of interest to a handful of medievalists stands out because of the immense, bungling, cloak-and-dagger internet chicanery involved, but more importantly because it reveals the misbehavior incentivized by European research funding. 

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• SOURCE: Reason
  6/14/2022
  

  Plagiarism Alleged in Kruse's 2000 Dissertation

  A researcher argues that passages from other published works are closely reproduced in the thesis. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/7/2020
  

  Neil Kinnock On Biden’s Plagiarism 'Scandal' And Why He Deserves To Win: ‘Joe’s An Honest Guy'

  The British politician whose words Joe Biden used without credit in a 1987 campaign speech still supports Biden in the upcoming election. The scandal is recapped here. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/13/19
  

  Fake Citations Kill Historian's Career

  Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University, plagiarized parts of his award-winning book on North Korea.

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• SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
  8/24/19
  

  Book ‘stole’ Mormon historian’s work, but publisher offers a settlement to 'make it right’

  It's the “taking of my unseen and unrecognized expertise that hurts more than the taking of my words,” Parshall said.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/16/19
  

  Historians fight back as TV raids their research treasures for its shows

  Academics demand that producers ensure that dramas and documentaries credit their work

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• SOURCE: The New Indian Express
  11-29-18
  

  25 per cent researchers worldwide have poor understanding of plagiarism: Survey

  Over 7000 researchers from India, Republic of Korea, Japan, China and Brazil were interviewed for the survey conducted by Editage, a global scholarly communications firm.

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• 6/10/18
  

  The Pulitzer's Gentlemen's Agreement

  by Philip Nobile

  An open letter to the Pulitzer Board about its indifference to Alex Haley’s "deliberate deception" in his prize-winning "Roots."

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  2-16-18
  

  Was This Technology historian plagiarized? Sure seems like she was.

  For the third time this month, scholars are questioning the integrity of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world’s largest professional organization for the advancement of technology.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-7-18
  

  Plagiarism Software Unveils a New Source for 11 of Shakespeare’s Plays

  What do the noble mastiff, the lowly cur and the trundle-tail have in common besides being terms for dogs?

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• SOURCE: Yahoo
  10-21-17
  

  Russian minister keeps doctorate despite plagiarism claims

  Vladimir Medinsky, who has published a best-selling trilogy of Russian history in which he presents a glossy nationalist version of the country's past, is also the chairman of the state-backed Russian Military History Society.

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• SOURCE: azcentral.com
  4-26-17
  

  Accused plagiarist Matthew Whitaker wins arbitration case against City of Phoenix over police contract

  The victory comes after a series of blows to his career.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  4-5-17
  

  Neil Gorsuch Accused of Plagiarism Days Before Confirmation Vote

  Republicans have painted Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as a man whose character and legal scholarship are unimpeachable, but on Tuesday night he became the latest Trump pick to be accused of plagiarism.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1-9-17
  

  Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation

  The media call her out for plagiarizing historian John Gaddis.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo
  12-20-16
  

  Plagiarism Checker Website PlagiarismCheck.org Announces Major Algorithm Update

  The new algorithm is so powerful, it can actually detect three times more cases of plagiarism than the previous version.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-20-16
  

  Does Melania Trump know what plagiarism is?

  As an Eastern European who attended school after the fall of communism, she might not.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7-19-16
  

  A short history of political plagiarism

  Melania Trump, accused of lifting passages from a speech by Michelle Obama, is not the first to face such allegations.

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• SOURCE: Laurie Roberts
  1-19-16
  

  Arizona State criticized for paying accused plagiarist Matthew Whitaker over $200 K

  by Laurie Roberts

  "If Whitaker was a serial plagiarizer, ASU should have just said so and fired him."

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• 1-15-16
  

  Matthew Whitaker has left Arizona State following allegations of plagiarism

  by Rick Shenkman

  His departure brings to a close years of controversy.

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• 1-22-16
  

  This Is What Max Hastings Did.  Is this Plagiarism?  You Decide.

  by John R. Schindler

  “Several months ago I made the unpleasant discovery that sections of the 2013 best-selling book Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Sir Max Hastings, the prolific British popular historian, looked an awful lot like one of my scholarly articles.”