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Smee
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 Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:27 am Post subject: Another Korean professor plagiarizes. |
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A Korean professor of a regional medical school is suspected of having plagiarized papers by other foreign professors.
John H. McDonald, biological sciences professor at University of Delaware in the U.S., is claiming via his blog that Han Jin, medical professor of Inje University has ``stolen'' some paragraphs from at least six recent biology papers.
Prof. Han of the university, located in South Gyeongsang Province, and Mohamad Warda of Cairo University in Egypt co-published a paper entitled ``Mitochondria, the missing link between body and soul'' in Proteomics, an international journal on Jan 23.
The case is the latest in a series of plagiarisms by Korean medical professors. Last year, one Seoul National University professor and another at University of Seoul were implicated in such cases.
Prof. McDonald said he cannot believe how the paper could have been published in such a respected, peer-reviewed journal. ``Proteomics is a decent, mid-level journal; not the place you would send your very best work, but not some place you would be embarrassed to publish in, either,'' McDonald was quoted as saying by The Harvard Crimson, daily college newspaper in the U.S.
McDonald said that at least 13 paragraphs from six other papers were copied verbatim in Prof. Han's paper.
Joshua LaBaer, the director of the Harvard Institute of Proteomics, also expressed disbelief that the international journal failed to discover the plagiarism.
``Usually you would think with peer reviews the people who reviewed would have picked up on this,'' LaBaer was quoted as saying by the newspaper. ``Plagiarism can be very subtle.''
Prof Han told a local newspaper that there might have been ``some errors'' in the process of working with Prof. Warda online. He said he had already requested Proteomics to retract the paper from the journal.
Han was not immediately available for comment when contacted by the Korea Times. |
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/02/116_18810.html |
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khyber
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Location: Compunction Junction
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| Sad that this is such old hat that nobody feels a need to comment on this. |
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Beej
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Location: Eungam Loop
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:25 am Post subject: |
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| Does Korean academia have any credibilty whatsoever anymore. I mean come on. Who would trust anything coming out of Korea? |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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GreenlightmeansGO
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Prof Han told a local newspaper that there might have been ``some errors'' in the process of working with Prof. Warda online |
How could he make errors? 'Ctrl+C' followed by 'ctrl+V' - I think he got that part right. Maybe the internet goblins played some tricksy on his work. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
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. |
What in the hell are you talking aout?
Don't post drunk! |
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Khunopie
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Beej wrote: |
| Does Korean academia have any credibilty whatsoever anymore. I mean come on. Who would trust anything coming out of Korea? |
Does Korean academia have any credibilty whatsoever anymore. I mean come on. Who would trust anything coming out of Korea? |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Does Korean academia have any credibilty whatsoever anymore[?] |
What do you mean, anymore? Has it ever had any credibility? I know it sounds snarkish, but as I was typing it with the intent of being snarkish, it occurred to me that it really is a legitimate question. What is the reputation of Korean academia in different periods (pre-colonization, colonial period, Korean War, post-Korean War, Park era, current)? |
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mindmetoo
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mindmetoo
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crsandus
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: |
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| Prof Han told a local newspaper that there might have been ``some errors'' in the process of working with Prof. Warda online |
How could he make errors? 'Ctrl+C' followed by 'ctrl+V' - I think he got that part right. Maybe the internet goblins played some tricksy on his work. |
Maybe he didn't enough ctrl+c and ctrl+v's. Maybe his plan was to copy the original english text into an online english to korean translator and then take that output and run it through an online korean to english translator... if that doesn't change the content enough to fool people, I don't know what will.  |
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Suwoner10
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| ChopChaeJoe wrote: |
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. |
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Lonewolf
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Tell us something we don't know. I have yet to find A Korean whom has not done this. |
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mistermasan
Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| is this a good place to note that king saejon did not create the hangul alphabet but lifted it from elsewhere? |
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crusher_of_heads
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I am wondering to what lengths this fellow will go to in order to save face. |
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