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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

The case for plagiarism

There’s been a recent tiffle about alleged plagiarism in the dissertation of a student who is now a university president. In this case, the entire research design is borrowed from an earlier study, which the author acknowledges and cites:
[T]his study replicated [...] a study [...] that had first been conducted at The University of Alabama [...]

Age and eligibility for office: a curious intersection of civil rights and democracy

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years …
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years …
No person [...] shall be eligible to the Office of President [...] who shall not have attained to the Age [...]

  • Science dudes, are you even listening to me??