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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Category: Academic integrity
This week the New York Times reported on the problem of drug company-sponsored ghostwriting of articles in the scientific literature: A growing body of evidence suggests that doctors at some of the nation's top medical schools have been attaching their...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 8:58 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academic integrity
The headlines bring news of another scientist (this time a physician-scientist) caught committing fraud, rather than science. This story is of interest in part because of the scale of the deception -- not a paper or two, but perhaps dozens...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... and the university, in turn, fires the professor.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:27 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As the new calendar year approaches, I can't help but anticipate the coming spring semester -- and to hold out the hope that this one will be the semester in which none of my students commits plagiarism. Otherwise, I'm facing...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:47 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the 20/27 December 2007 issue of Nature, there's a fascinating commentary by Cambridge University neuroscientists Barbara Sahakian and Sharon Morein-Zamir. Entitled "Professor's little helper," this commentary explores, among other things, how "cognitive-enhancing drugs" are starting to find their way...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:02 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you're "writing" a philosophy paper and you're going to plagiarize, why would you plagiarize a sub-optimal source like Wikipedia? Why wouldn't you at least rip off a top-notch source like the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy? It seems to me...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:05 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... is to get all the way through the 16 weeks without a single incident of plagiarism turned in as "student work". Alas, it appears this will not be the semester in which my fantasy becomes a reality. Dammit....
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 3:43 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm pretty sure the National Collegiate Athletic Association doesn't want college athletes -- or the athletics programs supporting them -- to cheat their way through college. However, this article at Inside Higher Ed raises the question of whether some kind...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:24 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Somehow, the Florida State University Office of Athletic Academic Support Services had in its employ a "Learning Specialist" who seemed to think it was part of his or her job to help a bunch of student athletes cheat. As reported...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:23 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The news today from Inside Higher Ed is that the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to fire Ward Churchill. You may recall that in May 2006, a faculty panel at the university found that the tenured ethnic studies...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 2:08 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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