tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9091218950079982154.post7871061333168813200..comments2024-03-07T15:19:55.343+01:00Comments on Copy, Shake, and Paste: Six Students Found Guilty of Plagiarism in SwedenDebora Weber-Wulffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01602911135725939409noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9091218950079982154.post-32817679378768962612012-05-26T00:13:12.384+02:002012-05-26T00:13:12.384+02:00Or it may stipulate a discussion on what is good s...Or it may stipulate a discussion on what is good scientific writing and what is not; i.e. what needs to be punished strictly and what not. <br />I feel quite a lack of ethics discussions in our scientific educations - there are religion/ethics classes in school, which could tackle these topics, but at my time never did (yeah well, religion classes might not be the right place but sometimes they really are more ethics classes with a bit Christianity salt if you have the right teacher). But at university? Nothing! Universal education? Not in Germany... :/<br />At a foreign university I was quite happy I could enlist for a philosophical course in scientific thinking (not about ethics more about what scientific thinking actually is, having theories and killing them off by experiments etc.), at least one course in such a general direction should either be mandatory or at least be offered quite prominently for everyone ...<br />Punishment will only make people who copy on purpose (knowing they should not) be more careful in hiding the copying. People need to believe in those ethics standards, and for that they need to know about them and why they are there...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com