Not too long ago a really big name in economics lifted some of Doug's social security analysis---word for word. I pointed this out to Doug. Did Doug get angry? No. He said something like, "it's good for the cause to get the word out."
Recently, one of my closer pals, wrote an article that read suspiciously like Max on social security in our local union paper.(3,000 mailed, 1,000 distributed). When I questioned my pal about this article he laid it off on the Machinists union. Now I realize that there is a big difference between a big name Ph.D who plagiarizes and a millwright who writes for the cause,but, I don't think it hurts anything to remind them about it. It's just a matter of the degree of reminder. Of course I have seen Max's boss plagiarized word for word by another one of my pals in our local union paper. I explained to this pal, that he should have at least mentioned EPI. This pals defense was," well he gave it to me."
>From various "book" collections in our mill, I can assure everyone that
the evil deeds of David Duke have been chronicled by Playboy, Penthouse,
Hustler and I believe Cherrie. My friends only buy these "books" for in
depth intellectual stimulation and fact filled reporting on important
issues of the day. For the more technically minded we like American
Rifleman, Combat Handguns, Popular Science and various computer
wish-books.
Your email pal, Tom L.
Greg Nowell wrote:
> Actually there's so much of it around I don't know what
> to say. Martin Luther King plagiarized parts of his
> Ph.D. dissertation. I get several plagiarism cases a
> year, teaching. The Guatemalan book. Two writers at
> the Boston Globe, Mike Barnicle and a woman whose name
> I don't know. My ex-wife's father has a tenured job at
> Emerson College in Boston and never even wrote a Ph.D.
> thesis. I had thought to flatter him by dropping by
> Boston University to read it and then talk to him about
> it. Instead I found out that he had never written so
> much as a Master's thesis. Interestingly, he was a
> reverend and graduated in the same class as Martin
> Luther King.
>
> It's hard to enforce, too. If I get a paper I consider
> possibly plagiarized, if I can't immediately find it on
> the internet then I would have to go to the library and
> root around (assuming I don't recognize it).
>
> I had a Korean student who, in a course in
> international relations, plagiarized a paper by J.A.
> Hobson by me, that I had placed on the internet.
>
> So some made-up elements in a book about Guatemala
> don't surprise me. I'm sure the right wingers
> plagiarize I just don't know how often they get caught.
>
> Then there's the terrific scandal that plagued the 1st
> edition of Abraham's excellent book (which I've used in
> classes) on the Weimar republic. He apparently had
> used as verbatim quotations in teh book material from
> his archive notes that was in fact summaries. He was
> descended on by banshees and ended up going to law
> skool, driven from the history profession. I thought
> that such a "crime" "did not rise to the level" of
> impeachment but there you are.
>
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> Gregory P. Nowell
> Associate Professor
> Department of Political Science, Milne 100
> State University of New York
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