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So you where caught plagiarizing in your doctoral thesis... how should you react now? A short overview and explanation of different behaviour.
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Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Caught plagiarizing... ... now what?
Short overview and explanation of differentbehaviour by scientific fraudsters
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Deny /ridicule the accusation
“The accusation that my dissertationwas plagiarized is absurd.” (Guttenberg)
Rather bad. Also works only if youhave read your thesis and know it.
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Play down“I am willing to check within the 1,200 footnotes and 475 pages for footnotes that are not set correctly, and [then] would consider this for a reprint of the thesis.” (Guttenberg)
Might work. But you shouldn’t try this approach if there is plagiarism on ~95%of all pages.
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel PolitCamp 11, 5. Juni 2011
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
“The others are to blame”
• Examiners (Koch-Mehrin)
• Family (Guttenberg)
• Dead soldiers (Guttenberg)
Blaming others always looks bad. You’re not going to win with this strategy.
Alternative: Don’t write a thesis at all.
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
• Weaker version:“Let it rest temporarily”
• Guttenberg
• Pröfrock
• Brinkmann (sent back his certificate)
The university is conferring a doctorate and collects it again. You can’t decide by yourself that you suddenly don’t want to have it anymore.
(But at first it makes a good impression...)
Waive your PhD
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Creative defense• Invent a new citation style (Chatzimarkakis):
“Citations in the text, not indented and without quotation marks, identified by footnotes.
This creates room for speculation. I havetherefore explicitly informed the UniversityBonn about the citation style used by me.”
Works at most with people whonever had casual contact with academicknowledge.
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Legal steps• Saß
• Koch-Mehrin
Please...
Not if you take doctorates from “nobodies” and kick them out fordoing way less.
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Impute denunciation
• With VroniPlag denunciation protected by anonymity of the Internet, it has apparently become a socially accepted sport (according to Alvaro).
“Who publicly pillories others and prejudges them has to do so in the open” demands the liberal.
• If you don‘t have any factual arguments left...
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Nice reactions“Good day,
Haven’t you done enough damage already? There is nothing more
disgusting as you informers. I do not know what you do exactly
but if you spend so much time trying to denounce others, it seems
that you‘re not getting along with your own life. Better get a job
and earn money to pay taxes. You are the old man who lurks on
the street, waiting for people to park incorrectly so you can press charges against
them. People like you should be gassed, then our society would
be way better.
Unfriendly greetings”
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Nice reactions
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Leaving the country...
... is, of course, another possibility.
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Tim Bartel (Wikia) Webmontag Köln, 20. Juni 2011
Possible alternatives
• What I would like to see for a change:
• Admit
• Show remorse
• Excuse
• Redo your degree
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
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