[Maths-Education] The Plagiarism Scandal of Guttenberg

[Alan Rogerson]

I thought members on our List might be interested in this thread from 
the PSCI-COM List, which you can join if you want to see all the 
comments (see the end of this email).
Guttenberg surely should resign, as Deutsche Welle's Bettina Marx argues 
at: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14871392,00.html.
How can he or his government ever speak in future about education, 
honesty, hard work without his plagiarism, let's call it cheating, 
coming back to haunt them?
and
"Speaking of politics, PhDs and (alleged) plagiarism, this is 
interesting: http://saifalislamgaddafithesis.wikia.com/wiki/Plagiarism
Oli "

Here is the latest posting:

On 28/02/2011 10:24, Alan Rogerson wrote:
> Thank you Alice (and Debora in the blog) and Stephan,
> The evidence is now overwhelming that deliberate cheating took place 
> (as opposed to accidental errors). I have posted comments in as many 
> places as possible, and added my name to the letter. I hope others 
> will feel strongly enough to do the same. This plagiarism, and the 
> arrogant attempts to escape censure for it, are an insult to all those 
> working hard and honestly in academic life, and a clear contempt for 
> the high ideals which hopefully we aspire to.
> Alan
>
> On 28/02/2011 10:05, Stephan Matthiesen wrote:
>> Hello Alice,
>>
>> thank you for these links.
>>
>> Am 28.02.2011 08:53, schrieb alice bell:
>>> People following the German defense minister plagiarism story might
>>> find this post interesting:
>>> http://copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com/2011/02/open-letter-to-chancellor.html 
>>>
>>
>> Yes, this is the letter that I mentioned on Friday. It's great that 
>> there is a translation now!
>>
>> For those who do read German, here is a collection of articles by all 
>> major science bloggers, discussing different aspects of the issue in 
>> detail:
>> http://www.scilogs.de/artikel/1064849
>>
>> Cheers
>> Stephan

On 28/02/2011 09:53, alice bell wrote:
> People following the German defense minister plagiarism story might
> find this post interesting:
> http://copy-shake-paste.blogspot.com/2011/02/open-letter-to-chancellor.html
>
> It's an English translation of a letter accusing the German chancellor
> of trivialising plagiarism. Apparently it's been signed by over 20,
> 000 people. I can't read German, so am going on reports from other
> people.
>
> You can see some photos of the protest here -
> http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article12658198/20-000-Forscher-werfen-Merkel-Verhoehnung-vor.html
> - including an incredible [citation needed] one.
>
> Alice
>
> On 25 February 2011 20:31, Stephan Matthiesen
> <info at stephan-matthiesen.de>  wrote:
>> >  Hello Alan,
>> >
>> >  Am 25.02.2011 20:15, schrieb Alan Rogerson:
>>> >>
>>> >>  I sincerely hope the 1000s of German PhD students and many others who
>>> >>  are protesting will make it clear to the politicians that plagiarism and
>>> >>  lying need to be addresseed and punished.... watch this space as they
>>> >>  say. The power of the voice of the people is not only evident in Egypt,
>>> >>  Tunisia, and other places.... we hope nearer home too....
>> >
>> >  Exactly ... this is the point I was trying to make.
>> >
>> >  The interesting issue here is not that there was a case of plagiarism - such
>> >  things happen, they need to be dealt with, and universities already take
>> >  that seriously.
>> >
>> >  The interesting thing is that the scientific scene in Germany, from Ph.D.
>> >  students to national research funders, are crying out in public and demand
>> >  that scientific integrity is upheld and that plagiarism cannot be excused.
>> >
>> >  Isn't that a great message that so many scientists are standing up for
>> >  integrity?
>> >
>> >  Cheers
>> >  Stephan

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