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A Tale of Two Universities 22 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
Germany has been having to deal with plagiarism problems in doctoral dissertations on a large scale the past two years. In particular, with all the discussion about plagiarism, the universities are be...
Now with ISSN number! 20 Aug 2013 | 02:53 am
Just a short note this evening: As can be seen in the little box on the right, the blog "Copy, Shake, and Paste" has been assigned an ISSN number, 2197-4608! I applied for one a long way back and was ...
Berkley vs. Berkeley - Tales of a Diploma Mill 10 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
Everyone knows that Berkley is an excellent university in the United States. Or was that Berkeley? Whatever, if someone is sporting a degree that looks impressive, it must be from that place. Except ...
Off to a great start 8 Aug 2013 | 04:02 am
I sit on the committee that evaluates the applications for our Master's program and awards points that determine who will be offered a position. We met today to slog through 57 applications for 20 pla...
Another German Politician 4 Aug 2013 | 03:13 am
The pseudonym Robert Schmidt, who documented extensive plagiarism in the doctoral dissertation of Annette Schavan, has now turned his sights on the president of parliament, Norbert Lammert. Schmidt do...
Schön's doctorate remains revoked 1 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
The German Federal Administrative Court (the highest court for such matters) decided yesterday on the appeal of Jan Hendrik Schön. Schön, a research shooting star physicist in the area of nanotechnolo...
Retractions as references 24 Jul 2013 | 11:56 pm
A reader pointed out an interesting article to me that was published in October 2012 on PLoS: Investigation of CD28 Gene Polymorphisms in Patients with Sporadic Breast Cancer in a Chinese Han Populat...
The German Pseudodoctors 11 Jul 2013 | 02:56 am
No, I'm not talking about the current situation, although it is getting bizarrer by the day. Nature published an anonymous editorial today, decrying the anonymous, mud-slinging plagiarism-accusers. Sa...
Whistleblowing in Germany 9 Jul 2013 | 04:23 am
The German research council DFG gave their yearly press conference on July 4, 2013. Among other topics, they also presented the 17th recommendation for good scientific practice, on whistleblowing. Sin...
German Medical Dissertations 30 Jun 2013 | 10:13 pm
There have been discussions about the quality of German medical dissertations going back for centuries. Medical practitioners are quick to note that medicine is a completely different field from, say...
