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This one is just too good not to share. I came across it via a link from Retraction Watch.
Director of Paris journalism school suspended for plagiarism:
Executive director of journalism school at Sciences-Po university suspended while the university investigates accusations she was plagiarising other people’s articles for columns in the Huffington Post . . .The website Arret Sur Images said it fed around 20 of her columns into an online plagiarism checker and found that in half of them at least one sentence, but more often two or three, had been lifted from other articles and presented unchanged and without attribution.
Hey, I taught at Sciences-Po! (But I didn’t know this person.)
What’s funny about this story, though, was that she plagiarized, and risked losing her career, to publish at . . . the Huffington Post!? That’s what I call high risk, low return.
This is as ridiculous as if a prominent statistician had destroyed his reputation by plagiarizing review articles in some obscure journal on, umm, I dunno, “Interdisciplinary Reviews”? Nah, that could never happen.
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