10-17-2007, 05:17 AM
ham Wrote:Ward Churchill's Twelve Excuses for Plagiarism
Thomas Brown
Plagiary 2007 2(7): 1-13 (30 August 2007)
Abstract
This article observes that Ward Churchill and his defenders have offered twelve different excuses for the plagiarism charges against Churchill. The excuses are contrasted with the established ethical standards governing American scholars. Each excuse is also compared against the available evidence in Churchill's case specifically. It is found that several of Churchill's excuses highlight ambiguities in the established ethical standards, indicating the need for further debate in the scholarly community in order to more precisely delineate the boundary between ethical scholarship and unethical scholarship. It is also found that the evidence of Churchill's plagiarism overwhelms any ambiguities, and that each of his twelve excuses fails to justify his plagiarism.
He was fired for saying the victims of the 9/11 deserved what they got!