[lbo-talk] Saif Gaddafi's Dissertation...

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Fri Feb 25 07:46:50 PST 2011


On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:23:10 -0500 (EST) Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes:
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > I haven't read the thing, but I skimmed through it (hey, it's the
>
> > Internet) and checked out the bibliography and it didn't seem like
> he'd
> > worked very hard on it.
>
> That's putting it mildly. It looks like the whole thing is
> plagiarized:
>
> http://saifalislamgaddafithesis.wikia.com/wiki/Plagiarism
>
> This was already public when Meghnad Desi made his asseverations.
> It's
> beginning to look like the LSE's Sokal hoax squared.

Well, that's what I always suspect when I hear that a child of a celebrity has earned an advanced degree, especially at a prestigious institution. I always think that they either plagiarized the thing or they hired somebody else to do the work for them.

Isn't that evil of me?

Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math


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