Thomas Leeper points me to Diederik Stapel’s memoir, “Faking Science: A True Story of Academic Fraud,” translated by Nick Brown and available online for free download.
Thomas Leeper points me to Diederik Stapel’s memoir, “Faking Science: A True Story of Academic Fraud,” translated by Nick Brown and available online for free download.
It would be wild if it turns out he has plagiarized some sections of it.
From a review of the Dutch original:
“The last chapter — an unexpectedly beautiful, poetic description of Stapel waking up next to his wife — feeds the idea that the narrator may not be entirely trustworthy: It is composed of sentences that Stapel copies from the fiction writers Raymond Carver and James Joyce but presents them without quotes and only acknowledges the sources separately in the appendices (p.
314).”
Review by Denny Borsboom and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Well, one has to admire the nerve, not just to plagiarize but to try to meld Raymond Carver and James Joyce. Perhaps Golden Photocopier Award for the most ambitious plagiarism of the year?
http://chronicle.com/article/Anatomy-of-a-Serial-Plagiarism/148437
Remarkable! No melding, just copying.
Reminds me of hearing once of a child who couldn’t distinguish between learning a song and making up a song. (Maybe that’s a normal developmental stage that Stapel never got past?)
Here also in eReader formats, epub and mobi (Kindle):
https://plus.google.com/101046916407340625977/posts/g7kfiLvfRk4