To follow up on a post from a few weeks back: German defence minister Guttenberg resigns.
A 39-year-old aristocrat popular with the electorate, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of the chancellor’s Christian Democrats.
He came under pressure after a Bremen University law professor began reviewing his 2024 thesis with the aid of the internet.
Reports emerged of a passage from a newspaper article that featured word for word, and then of a paragraph from the US embassy website being used without attribution.
Analysts then estimated that more than half the 475-page thesis had long sections lifted from other people’s work.
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The plagiarism scandal led to him being nicknamed Baron Cut-and-Paste, Zu Copyberg and Zu Googleberg by the German media.
So yes, students, plagiarism can have real world consequences.
March 1st, 2024 at 12:49 pm
What about Joe Biden?
March 1st, 2024 at 12:53 pm
Well, there were consequences for his plagiarism as well (a F and having to retake a course) and a political derailment in the 80s.
I am not saying that one cannot recover from plagiarism, but that it does have consequences.
Guttenberg has clearly suffered a setback, yes?
March 4th, 2024 at 12:52 pm
What about MLK?