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I remember "fondly" when a professor in China stole my paper from my PhD thesis; equations, pictures, and everything. I only found about it because a Chinese st
by bsoles 1y ago
I remember "fondly" when a professor in China stole my paper from my PhD thesis; equations, pictures, and everything. I only found about it because a Chinese student in another lab came across both papers and was puzzled by the extreme similarities. I tried to contact his/her university to let them know about the fraud and never got a reply. Good times ...
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- firefax 1y agocomedy option: visit as a tourist and show up in their office. I did this to someone who ripped off my master's thesis, word for word, as a side trek on holiday and it was like steam came out their ears when they realized if they call the campus authorities to escort me out they'd generate an incident report of why I was there. Edit: This was not in China btw -- ironically despite the stereotypes all the folks I've collaborated with from there have been pretty ethical and hardworking, it's a shame some ruin things for everyone.
- kenjackson 1y agoI had a similar experience. I was visiting the UK doing research and a Chinese post-doc was there. Apparently he was taking our methods and results and sending them to someone in China. They published in some journals we’d never heard of, at the same time we realized there was almost nothing we could do about it. Shaming had no impact on them. But their actual impact on us was negligible.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThe ideal scientific method in practice suffers in various cultural contexts.