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> some Romanian scientist teams were required to put her name in front of theirs when publishing Would never happen in the capitalist west, where the only name
by VictorPath 5y ago
> some Romanian scientist teams were required to put her name in front of theirs when publishing
Would never happen in the capitalist west, where the only names on scientific papers are people involved in the experiment, and the name order is by who did the most work!
- PeterisP 5y agoWhile we do see cases where papers include e.g. principal investigators who just got the funding or the supervisors of the grad students who did the actual experiments, adding random politicians with no connection to the studies is IMHO exceptionally rare, mostly because politicians have less direct power to force their country's scientists to do it publicly and keep their mouths shut - instead we're seeing plagiarism cases exposed, like the recent German case of (should-not-be-a-)Dr. Giffey and the earlier scandal of (not-anymore-a-Dr.) zu Guttenberg, and a bunch of others. However, I'm not really implying a qualitative difference - I'd fully agree that anyone in the capitalist west who has "made" all their publications by somehow arranging to be included in the authors' list should be considered not as scientists but as frauds, just like Ms. Ceausescu.