Had the offence been perpetrated by an undergrad or postgrad, they would
have been expelled. I think that would be true for any of the 3
institutions for which I've worked.
Colin Axon
Francis Sedgemore wrote:
> Chris Stokes may not be far off the truth.
>
> From what I can see, Persaud's defence was based on something like:
> "I'm so extremely busy and stressed out being the popular voice of
> psychiatry that I became a little confused, and overlooked the fact that
> I had not properly cited the work of others. And for that reason you
> should let me off."
>
> And going by the three month suspension, it could be argued that this is
> exactly what the GMC has done.
>
> Francis
>
> On 23 Jun 08, at 13:53, C.A.Stokes wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
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