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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| crusher_of_heads wrote: |
| I am wondering to what lengths this fellow will go to in order to save face. |
He seems to be emailing PZ Meyers offering his apologies. Claiming he's learned something and will go back to studying science. You can well bet the plagiarized prof are going to take this up with the journal. This is a very serious thing in science and we can add Han Jin to the honor roll of Korean scientists who will never get published in international journals again. Han Han can kiss his lavish publication bonuses from his universities goodbye. This doesn't do much for the reputation of Korea in the biologic sciences and, fairly or unfairly, scientist will start casting a jaundiced eye upon anything coming out of Korea in biology. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Suwoner10 wrote: |
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I see the rampant acadmic corruption in Korea in a positive light. At least Korea is wanting to partake in and excel at achievements in science and technology. Look at countries like Thailand and Cambodia. What do they have to offer in these areas? Eventually koreans will get it that these achievements take genuine effort and ability. It could be a major breakthrough.
If you think about America in the 60's and 70's, you had all of these hippies doing the same damn thing and then all of this designer brand me-ism consumerism that was really just conformity in another direction. By the 1990's America had a very individualistic, creative culture. There will always be mindless conformity, but it's no longer the ideal, like it was in the 50's (which incidently had the seeds of individualism in the beats and jazz and civil rights pioneers). JMHO. |
Huh?
You are claiming 90's America to be the apex of creativity and non-conformity? Cripes, how myopic are you? I'm guessing you weren't a History major. |
Hardly. Only that by the 90's conformity was no longer the ideal for the majority, or at least the dynamic had changed toward individual expression. More an inception than an apex.
My point was to draw a parallel with korea's attitude toward science and technology. Korea wants to take a leading role, but the culture of coruption must first be overcome. Having goals that require veracity could lead Korea to turn away from it's acceptence of the idea that cheating is just one of many ways to succeed, next to hard work and dilligence. |
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