What I can't work out is how having confessed to plagiarism he had the neck
to argue in his defence that he had not acted dishonestly. Was he arguing -
I don't have the details of his defence - that he was suffering from some
kind of as-yet unnamed psychosis that robs sufferers of the normal ability
of grown-ups to realize that plagiarism is infra dig? Or perhaps that a
faulty keyboard he was using had a duff inverted-commas key; he was pressing
it in all the right places but it was dropping them before he sent off the
manuscripts.
Seems the biggest mistake he made was criticising the Citizen's Commission
on Human Rights, set up by the Church of Scientology et al. Twas the CCHR,
not any of those Persaud had copied from, that complained of plagiarism in
the first complaint the GMC received about Persaud. A bit worrying, that. I
wouldn't be at all surprised if it turns out there's a mountain of
undiscovered plagiarism out there.
Anyhow, does the GMC's decision have any effect on Persaud's ability to ply
his trade as the darling you turn to when you need a celeb commentator to
say or write something about psychology or psychiatry? I'd have thought not.
Heck, who needs the GMC when he's got Richard and Judy? And how many pop-sci
publishers are going to send him packing because of this?
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
Michael Kenward:
> Hard to say anything that might not upset the lawyers when it
> comes to the case of poor Raj Persaud. Many may even think it
> in bad taste were I to dredge up my old quip of Raj Perpseud.
>
> I wonder, though, if the poor soul has been skewered in a way
> that simply would not apply to other PESTs, those not
> governed by the rules of a Royal College of something or other.
>
> Many is the time that I have reported ideas without
> attribution. Then again, my faith in my ability to craft
> better words than the average "boffin" is such that I would
> never lift large globs of text.
>
> Indeed, quoting is a great way to highlight crap writing.
> Maybe Dr Raj would have escaped censure had he been heavier
> in his own rewriting. Or could it be the other way round?
> "Mess with my words and I'll sue."
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