Tag Archives: plagiarism
Why it’s important to address plagiarism
Plagiarism is a tricky issue. If it’s straightforward to you, ask yourself if you’re assuming that the plagiariser (plagiarist?) is fluent in reading and writing, but especially writing, English. The answer’s probably ‘yes’. This is because for someone entering into … Continue reading
A new way to harass editors?
There’s a new way to harass editors – or perhaps it’s an old way that we’re just finding out about, first-hand. We know that repressive governments have started using the US’s infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as a new means … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Web Services, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, harassment, plagiarism, Shycocan, SLAPP
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Dealing with plagiarism? Look at thy neighbour
Four doctors affiliated with Kathmandu University (KU) in Nepal are going to be fired because they plagiarised data in two papers. The papers were retracted last year from the Bali Medical Journal, where they had been published. A dean at … Continue reading
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Tagged Bali Medical Journal, English, Kathmandu University, plagiarism, Praveen Chaddah, Retraction Watch, retractions
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Appa Rao Podile made fellow of science academy that published his problem paper – some questions
Appa Rao Podile, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad, has been elected a fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in spite of one of his three papers – which The Wire had identified in April 2016 as containing evidence of … Continue reading
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Tagged Appa Rao Podile, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Science Congress, Millennium Prize, plagiarism, research misconduct, Rohith Vemula, science academies, Subhash Lakhotia
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The Indian Science Congress has gutted its own award by giving it to Appa Rao Podile
An award of the Indian Science Congress has become subverted into becoming an instrument of negotiation for political agents: “You let me interfere in your duties, I will give you a fancy-sounding award”. Continue reading
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Tagged ABVP, Appa Rao Podile, Avula Damodaram, BJP, Chandrababu Naidu, Millennium Plaque of Honour, Mukund Thattai, Nobel laureates, Nobel Prize, plagiarism, research misconduct, Rohith Vemula, Sri Venkateswara University, University of Hyderabad, Venkaiah Naidu
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Podile, plagiarism, politics
If Appa Rao is the first politically appointed VC at the University of Hyderabad, how can anything he does not be examined through a political lens? Continue reading
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Tagged Appa Rao Podile, BS Rajput, Chandra Krishnamurthy, plagiarism, research misconduct, Rohith Vemula, scientific literature, University of Hyderabad
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Roundup of missed stories – February 14, 2016
Developments I’d have liked to cover but haven’t been able to for lack of time. Continue reading
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Tagged Feynman diagrams, GM crops, gravitational constant, gravitational waves, Jeffrey Drazen, Nuclear power, numerical relativity, plagiarism, roundup, Zika virus
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Plagiarism is plagiarism
In a Nature article, Praveen Chaddah argues that textual plagiarism entails that the offending paper only carry a correction and not be retracted because that makes the useful ideas and results in the paper unavailable. On the face of it, this is an argument … Continue reading
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Tagged plagiarism, PLoS ONE, Praveen Chaddah, science journals, scientific publishing
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R&D in China and India
“A great deal of the debate over globalization of knowledge economies has focused on China and India. One reason has been their rapid, sustained economic growth. The Chinese economy has averaged a growth rate of 9-10 percent for nearly two … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Current Science, decentralization, GDP, India, peer review, plagiarism, private sector investment, publish or perish, R&D, scientific misconduct, scientific publishing, scientific research
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