<< 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. >>
Standards differ in different disciplines. A friend of mine from law school is a PhD engineer--he' goung to be a patent lawyer. His adviser published my friend's Ph/D dissertation as a book with "joint" authorship, his own (the adviser's) name first,a lthough he contribured nothing but the introduction to the book. My fruend was amused that I was appalled. That's the way it's done in engineering, he said; he wasn't bothered. I should say that his PhD was from the top department in his field. In philosophy, anyway, and I am pretty sure in political science and law, that sort of thing would be misconduct of the sort that could lose you tenure. --jks