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Brazenly Plagiarized Spy Novel Pulled

Rob Quinn — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:00:00 CST

Bookseller Quentin Rowan appears to have forged a writing career entirely by raiding the contents of his shelves. Publisher Little, Brown & Co. recalled every single copy of his debut spy thriller, Assassin of Secrets —written under the pseudonym QR Markham—after discovering that passages had been lifted from more...

Scott Brown Accused of Plagiarism

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:27:22 CDT

It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for Scott Brown: Last week, there was that unfortunate Elizabeth Warren comment ; now, he's being accused of plagiarism. A liberal super PAC discovered that Brown’s website lifted a significant portion of an Elizabeth Dole speech from 2002, the Boston Globe reports. The...

Most Undergrads Will Take Classes Online in 10 Years

John Johnson — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:30:49 CDT

Online education will be booming over the next decade, according to a new Pew survey of college presidents. Some highlights, as noted by Today 's Digital Life : Half of the presidents surveyed say most undergrads will take at least some classes online in 10 years, up from the current estimate...

British Education Minister Plagiarizes Wikipedia

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:51:05 CDT

Plagiarizing Wikipedia: It's not just for high school students anymore! ePolitix busts John Hayes, Britain's further education minister, for apparently lifting a portion of a recent House of Commons speech from Wikipedia. Hayes was giving a history of bank holidays, and ePolitix offers up a detailed comparison of what he...

Maher: The Onion Stole My ‘Afterbirther’ Joke

Kevin Spak — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:25:22 CDT

Now that President Obama has turned the birther movement into an even bigger punchline than it already was, it’s no wonder that a cackling Internet has been bandying about an Onion article headlined, “Afterbirthers Demand to See Obama’s Placenta.” Pretty funny, right? Well, Bill Maher wasn’t laughing. “I see The...

Washington Post Suspends Plagiarizing Reporter

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:27:36 CDT

A long-time investigative reporter at the Washington Post has been suspended for lifting "substantial" portions of articles from an Arizona newspaper for her stories on accused Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner. Pultizer Prize-winner Sari Horwitz was suspended for three months for plagiarizing sections of stories from the Arizona Republic , reports...

Gadhafi Son Plagiarized Thesis, Used Ghostwriter

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:23:48 CST

The apparently not-so-august London School of Economics has admitted awarding a PhD in philosophy to one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons in 2008, even though he apparently plagiarized much of his dissertation. Saif al-Islam has been accused of using a ghostwriter to pen his paper, and lifting heavily from research and...

German Minister Quits Over Plagiarized Dissertation

Rob Quinn — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:03:00 CST

Germany's aristocratic defense minister has resigned after being caught in a plagiarism scandal. Tens of thousands of academics wrote to the government in protest after it was discovered that Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg—now nicknamed "Baron Cut and Paste" and "zu Googleberg"—had plagiarized large chunks of his PhD thesis,...

Skeptical Climate Report Plagiarized Wikipedia

Kevin Spak — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:25:06 CST

An influential 2006 congressional report questioning the validity of global warming research was heavily plagiarized, lifting sections from textbooks, Wikipedia, and even one of the scientists it criticized, according to experts contacted by the USA Today . A year-long analysis by one of the experts found that 35 of the report's...