Timeline for Can public political criticism of my alma mater result in my BA being revoked 35 years later?
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| Aug 5, 2020 at 21:45 | comment | added | gnasher729 | A paper can have perfectly valid and valuable results, no matter how much plagiarism or misattribution there is. Making up data invalidates the paper, and possibly other papers whose authors innocently relied on that paper. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 20:53 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @Roland: In some sense plagiarism, misattribution, and making up data out of thin air are all variations on a single offense -- misrepresenting the source of data. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 13:23 | comment | added | user9482 | @canadian_historian Plagiarism is a serious offense but not "the most significant academic crime". There are worse offenses, making up data comes to mind (because that actually threatens the integrity of science). | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 14:19 | comment | added | canadian_scholar | Yes good question @Nat: plagiarism is the most significant academic crime, and puts the integrity of the degree itself into question. If they were to engage in other behavior - even serious crimes - we would not revoke a normal degree as the degree itself was completed under proper circumstances. Honourary degrees are completely different, of course (we would revoke under other circumstances). | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 8:08 | comment | added | Especially Lime | @Nat I'd imagine the relevance of plagiarism is that no-one (at least in an academic context) would argue that it is either acceptable or irrelevant, and the debate is only about what level of sanction to apply. In OP's case that would not be so. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 12:53 | history | answered | canadian_scholar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |