Blog durchsuchen
Profil
Ali Arbia hat in Internationalen Beziehungen am Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Genf promoviert. Er ist überzeugter Europäer, ein echtes Zoon Politikon und interessiert sich für fast alles ausser Sport (und selbst das manchmal).
Letzte Einträge
- Libanon, Syrien und der Tod von Ahmad Abdel-Wahed7 Kommentare· 21.05.12
- Griechenland ohne Euro34 Kommentare· 16.05.12
- Pausengeräusche: Wo bin ich?18 Kommentare· 02.05.12
- Der Fall Breivik als Test für den Rechtsstaat35 Kommentare· 17.04.12
- Warum aber schwieg ich bislang? Was debattiert werden muss.44 Kommentare· 07.04.12
Kommentare
- Klaus · 24.05.12 · 12:56 Uhr Libanon, Syrien und der Tod von Ahmad Abdel-Wahed
- Totoro · 22.05.12 · 17:04 Uhr Griechenland ohne Euro
- Staatlich geprüfter Zwerg · 08.05.12 · 16:24 Uhr Pausengeräusche: Wo bin ich?
- dermehler · 26.04.12 · 10:03 Uhr Der Fall Breivik als Test für den Rechtsstaat
- Tina · 21.04.12 · 21:13 Uhr Schweizer Politik und das Web 2.0
Blogroll
english science english IR/PoliSci- The Monkey Cage
- Crooked Timber
- PolySigh
- Foreign Policy Passport
- Stephen M. Walt
- Daniel W. Drezner
- Marc Lynch
- The Cable
- The Multilateralist
- The Duck of Minerva
- IPE at the University of North Carolina
- The Quantitative Peace
- Informed Comment
- International Economic Law and Policy Blog
- ISN Blog
- Overcoming Bias
- PoliSciZurich
- Democracy in America
- Certain Ideas of Europe
- Glenn Greenwald
- A fistful of Euros
- The Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman)
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars
- Matthew Yglesias
- Science-Based Running
- Rationally Speaking
- Daily Coyote
- zooborns
- Boing Boing
- Stefan Niggemeier
- Law Blog
Kategorien
Archiv
- Mai 2012
- April 2012
- März 2012
- Februar 2012
- Januar 2012
- Dezember 2011
- November 2011
- Oktober 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- Juli 2011
- Juni 2011
- Mai 2011
- April 2011
- März 2011
- Februar 2011
- Januar 2011
- Dezember 2010
- November 2010
- Oktober 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- Juli 2010
- Juni 2010
- Mai 2010
- April 2010
- März 2010
- Februar 2010
- Januar 2010
- Dezember 2009
- November 2009
- Oktober 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- Juli 2009
- Juni 2009
- Mai 2009
- April 2009
- März 2009
- Februar 2009
- Januar 2009
- Dezember 2008
- November 2008
- Oktober 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- Juli 2008
- Juni 2008
- Mai 2008
- April 2008
- März 2008
- Februar 2008
« vorheriger Beitrag · nächster Beitrag »
23.06.11 · 16:33 Uhr
Academic Fraudster as a member of the Research Commission of the European Parliament?
Kategorie: Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften·Politik · Kommentare: 11
Most of my German readers are well aware of the plagiarism scandal around former German minister one of their representatives in the European Parliament: Silvana Koch-Mehrin. However, it is a European scandal now. It has reached the European Parliament and this is why I write this post in English. I hope to draw the attention of other members of the academic community (especially in Europe) to this problem and the petition we have launched today. It concerns us all as ultimately it is about the reputation of academic research.
Koch-Mehrin was found guilty of plagiarism by a committee of the University of Heidelberg in charge of investigating the accusations.
During the two month-long investigation, the committee found more than 120 plagiarized passages in over 80 pages of Koch-Mehrin's doctoral thesis [...]. They came from more than 30 different sources, two thirds of which were not identified. (source)
As a consequence the university of Heidelberg withdrew the title from her on 15 June 2011. In a press release (which as far as I can tell does not exist in English) she was defiant, arguing that "she knew from the beginning that her doctoral thesis was no masterpiece." She tries to shift the blame by claiming that "good scientific practices" do also "require to closely consider the submitted work." Apparently Ms Koch-Mehrin has not understood the accusation against her. Fraud is fraud and you cannot blame those who fell for it for your own wrongdoings.
Koch-Mehrin is the second high profile German politician who lost her title because of plagiarism. She resigned as Vice-President of the European Parliament because of the scandal. But yesterday the European Parliament has put the fox in charge of the hen house. Silvana Koch-Mehrin was elected as a full member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) of the European Parliament. This committee is amongst other things in charge of the EU research policy and space policy. To have someone who lost her PhD because of plagiarism to be member of a commission in charge of research policy is an insult for honest academics and an embarrassment for the European Parliament.
We have therefore launched a petition calling for her resignation. She wants to make the "digital agenda, information technologies, telecommunication and the Internet" her priorities. Let us demonstrate how well the digital community can organize.
Please sign the petition and spread the word! It is especially important that European citizens sign the petition (although we are thankful for any support from the academic community in the US, European signatories will have the greatest impact).
Full link to the petition: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/resignation-of-silvana-koch-mehrin-from-the-european-pa.html
Autor: ali· 11 Kommentare· Permalink· Trackback-URL
Trackbacks (2)
Den Bock zum Gärtner machen · Chemisches Allerlei · 23.06.11 · 16:47 Uhr
Die einen leisten, damit es sich für die anderen lohnt · es bleibt schwierig · 24.06.11 · 16:51 Uhr
Kommentar schreiben
Top5
- Liebe Piraten, lasst uns endlich vernünftig miteinander reden!Astrodicticum Simplex· 14.05.2012
- Risikowahrnehmung: Wenn man vor den falschen Dingen Angst hatAstrodicticum Simplex· 20.05.2012
- Dr. h.c. im Sonderangebot für 39 Euro[sic]· 14.05.2012
- Pi auf dem Einrad!Astrodicticum Simplex· 20.05.2012
- Die Erde dreht sich nicht um die Sonne...Astrodicticum Simplex· 12.05.2012
Top5
- Liebe Piraten, lasst uns endlich vernünftig miteinander reden!Astrodicticum Simplex· 14.05.2012
- Klimaschmock des Monats Mai 2012Primaklima· 20.05.2012
- Die kalte Sonne von Vahrenholt/Lüning: Le Trend, c'est moi!Primaklima· 16.05.2012
- Risikowahrnehmung: Wenn man vor den falschen Dingen Angst hatAstrodicticum Simplex· 20.05.2012
- Der NRW Wahlkampf - eine Analyse mit Noten.Primaklima· 14.05.2012
ScienceBlogs.com
- Doubt and other products: The National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens, bad for whose business?by Elizabeth Grossman As it pursues its anti-regulatory agenda the ...The Pump Handle· 22.05.2012 · 16:39 Uhr
- Weekend Recap: My Annular Eclipse Expedition!A little more persistence a little more effort and what ...Starts With A Bang· 22.05.2012 · 00:11 Uhr
- Water, waterThis image has been going around the intertubes recently I ...A Few Things Ill Considered· 21.05.2012 · 22:59 Uhr
- To be or not to be? The Prevention and Public Health Fundby Kim Krisberg We will pay for this by taking ...The Pump Handle· 21.05.2012 · 15:19 Uhr
- An important revelation regarding Heartland Gate (global warming denialism)Peter Gleick has been cleared of faking a key memo ...Greg Laden's Blog· 21.05.2012 · 12:52 Uhr
Kommentare (11)
She was not really a minister. The minister was another fraud.
@walim
My bad. Thanks. Corrected. I was actually thinking of someone else, not Guttenberg.
Someone else? Austria's former science minister Johannes Hahn perhaps?
Sentence added at the end of the post to prepare for the impact with the Pharyngula hordes. Thanks to all of you for your support.
In meiner Doktorarbeit (Heidelberg, 1975) habe ich alles ordnungsgemäß zitiert;
die ehrlich verdiente Note basiert nicht allein auf Fleiß, sondern auch auf Sorgfalt. Jeder Kandidat weiß, daß Täuschung in einer vorgelegten Doktorarbeit wohl zur Entziehung des Doktorgrades führen kann, sogar nach Jahren. Betrug bleibt Betrug.
Ms Koch-Mehrin is not the fraud. The fraud are those that lack good enough intelligence and wit o make a better claim against her in how they rate better in integrity overall. We've been down this road before in Germany and none of you were better than her back then either (if you know what Im referring to) She is the finest of irish spirits and richly deserves her degrees and awards - how about you? what have you done for the Reich lately other than nag and complain at what is left of the truest irish spirit!
See this? It's my doctoral thesis. Go ahead, try to find plagiarism anywhere in those 324 pages. Have a nice weekend.
If that is the finest of Irish spirits, Ireland is well and truly fucked.
(But I thought she was German...?)
Those that haven't been retracted? Perhaps. I have no idea.
I burp in your general direction, troll.
Wide-ranging plagiarism is what is left of the truest Irish spirit? Seriously? That would give a whole new meaning to "the luck of the Irish".
(How mind-bogglingly stupid. Comes to a blog full of scientists and blithely assumes everyone must be a cheating asshole like Googleberg and was too stupid to be able to finish university in an honest way. WTF?)
She has now decided not to join this committee. However, she will join another committee instead. So, the petition should call for her to withdraw from the European Parliament, not merely not serve in the research committee. She still doesn't understand what she did wrong and is not prepared to accept responsibility.
Irish? She is German, but married to an Irishman.
Interestingly, of the several politicians and children of polititicans who have been found guilty of plagiarism in the last few months, all are from right-wing parties (CDU, CSU and FDP).
ITRE is the Industry Committee of Parliament. Not a research commission. The summer hole reporting got it wrong. Each MEPs specialises in Committees, there is nothing wrong with Koch-Mehrin in ITRE.
@Andre
ITRE stands for Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, so why should it be purely an industry committee? Just because it does not soleyl focus on research it is still relevant to it. ITRE's self-description:
The Joint Research Centre "is the scientific and technical arm of the European Commission. It is providing the scientific advice and technical know-how to support a wide range of EU policies." (source).
You seriously want to argue that oversight functions for the JRC and the coordination of European Space policies are in fact not relevant to research and that Koch-Mehrin severe academic misconduct is not important for this? I really doubt that the "summer hole reporting" got it wrong.