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Introduction: Dan Kahan writes on what seems to be the topic of the week : In reflecting on Lehrer , I [Kahan] have to wonder why the sanction is so much more severe — basically career “death penalty” subject to parole [I think he means "life imprisonment" --- ed.], I suppose, if he manages decades of “good behavior” — for this science journalist when scholars who stick plagiarized material in their “popular science” writing don’t even get slap on wrist — more like shrug of the shoulders. I do think the behavior is comparable; if anything, it’s probably “less wrong” to make up innocuous filler quotes (the Dylan one is, for sure), then to stick paragraphs of someone else’s writing into a book. But the cause is the same: laziness. (The plagarism I’m talking about is not the sort done by Wegman; its sort done by scholars who use factory production techniques to write popular press books — teams of research assistants who write memos, which the “author” then knits together & passes off as learne


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1 ], I suppose, if he manages decades of “good behavior” — for this science journalist when scholars who stick plagiarized material in their “popular science” writing don’t even get slap on wrist — more like shrug of the shoulders. [sent-2, score-0.344]

2 My sense is that the sanctions should be brought into line by adjusted the penalty substantially upward for the “scholars” & likely downward for guy like Lehrer (who actually is a talented guy; so much for “unity of the virtues”). [sent-7, score-0.24]

3 I’m amused that Jonah Lehrer shares a last name with a man who wrote an entire song about plagiarism (see above clip). [sent-9, score-0.204]

4 I think the decisions we’ve seen involving misconduct make some sense if you consider the options and costs involved for the decision makers. [sent-14, score-0.171]

5 Similarly, nobody wants the embarrassment of paying $20K or whatever to hear the stylings of a fabricator, not is the New Yorker going to sell a lot of copies to people who have a burning desire to learn the latest in faked and recycled science. [sent-20, score-0.182]

6 I don’t know, but I feel that I recently got some insight into legal plagiarism after recently working as an expert witness in a court case (yup, I did it for the money). [sent-30, score-0.289]

7 I did some work and wrote it up, then the people at the law firm rewrote it to be in the standard format for an expert witness report. [sent-31, score-0.206]

8 I asked the lawyers if this was OK, and they said Yes, my name on it means that I stand behind it, not that I wrote every word. [sent-34, score-0.206]

9 Anyway, I assume that lawyers such as Tribe and Ayres have lots of experience putting their names on reports that they have not written, and this is standard practice. [sent-36, score-0.206]

10 And, to the extent that a lot of organizations are run by lawyers (or run things by lawyers), that might explain a general level of tolerance toward such offenses, especially in law schools. [sent-42, score-0.267]

11 Consider the perpetrator a much bigger scandal than those listed above, Jerry Sandusky, the football coach who molested kids and then was protected by his employers. [sent-44, score-0.208]

12 Much of the discussion of this case focused on the oversized influence of the football program at Penn State. [sent-45, score-0.186]

13 I suspect what’s going on is that, once these administrators realize for real that something is going on, they switch to legal-paranoid mode and are afraid of doing anything over the line in case the perp sues them. [sent-53, score-0.146]

14 Hence Sandusky’s and Paterno’s monster severance packages and various funny business I’ve seen elsewhere. [sent-55, score-0.219]

15 And, after all, Fischer and Wegman are pretty old, so why rock the boat, why not wait till they retire (perhaps with juicy severance packages to get rid of them faster)? [sent-56, score-0.42]

16 You have a bunch of organizations that have the alternative of (a) paying him real money, or (b) costlessly getting rid of him. [sent-58, score-0.195]

17 The administrators must feel that to get rid of these guys would be highly costly, either in the form of an expensive shut-up-and-bother-someone-else severance package of the Sandusky variety, or in the form of lawsuits, bad publicity, etc. [sent-62, score-0.518]

18 Laurence Tribe’s plagiarism might be a bigger deal if anyone anywhere cared about Laurence Tribe. [sent-82, score-0.143]

19 A science writer who makes stuff up is pretty bad, but I guess all these publications need copy, and motivational speaker series need motivational speakers. [sent-83, score-0.362]

20 If people want to pay to hear him speak it will be to hear what he has to say, not to hear from the boy wonder New Yorker writer. [sent-85, score-0.33]


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