People unclear on the concept - Benjamin J Hayempour and the Streisand Effect
From Neuroskeptic writing at
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Legal Threats Backfire
Last week, a young radiation biologist by the name of Benjamin J Hayempour was featured on the blog Retraction Watch. Hayempour had just had a paper retracted for its �unexplained close similarity� to another paper � a phrase that many people would consider a euphemism for �plagiarism�.
Plagiarism is so common that it�s a bit boring. If one plagiarized paper had been all there was to the story, Retraction Watch might not have run it; it certainly wouldn�t have got much traffic.
However, Hayempour went and made the story at lot more interesting � by having his lawyer threaten Retraction Watch with a lawsuit. This was probably the worst move he could possibly have made. Within hours, a mob of readers had trawled Hayempour�s other publications and uncovered numerous other �close similarities�. Instead of one retraction, he might well end up with several.
Neuroskeptic looks at this paper from
McGuire et al (2007) comparing it to this
Hayempour paper from 2013 and has this to say:
The passage even contains a classic plagiarism �smoking gun�. McGuire et al twice misspelled �haemoglobin� as �heamoglobin�� and so did Hayempour et al.
Busted! Hayempour will be lucky to get a job teaching high school science...
Streisand Effect?
Here.
Posted by DaveH at December 13, 2013 12:31 PM