Saif Gadaffhi, son of Muammar Gadaffi, is a plagiarist
source: http://saifalislamgaddafithesis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
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Saif Gadaffhi's not just the scion of a lunatic dictatorial legacy, and not just the ironic recipient of a PhD from the London School of Economics in 'The Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions' -- he's also a plagiarist!
An anonymous source at the London School of Economics said, "There appears to be some *at least* minor plagiarism in this thesis. If you look at the bottom of p.45 there is a passage that goes: 'The expansions of the IMF's membership, together with the changes in the world economy, have required the IMF to adapt in a variety of ways to continue serving its purposes effectively'. If you plug this sentence into Google you get a link to the IMF Wikipedia page. I caught this within 60 seconds of opening the thesis. There's one more I found a page later. I tried twice with a hit rate of two out of two. Readers may want to look for more. My impression is the thesis is generally OK - the plagiarism may only be limited to boilerplate factoid stuff like this on the IMF. But it would be good to alert readers to comb through it using Google."
Update: Here is a Wiki to track instances of plagiarism in Saif Gadaffhi's thesis:
http://saifalislamgaddafithesis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Original Thesis of Saif Gadaffhi - THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DEMOCRATISATION OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS: From 'Soft Power' to Collective Decision-Making:
http://saifalislam.ly/files/2010/06/19ca14e7ea6328a42e0eb13d585e4c22.pdf
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/22/saif-gadaffhi-plagia.html
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m31urYR_nYw/TTO7SNf-PRI/AAAAAAAAAmI/ZdD3fE_r3c0/s1600/...
An anonymous source at the London School of Economics said, "There appears to be some *at least* minor plagiarism in this thesis. If you look at the bottom of p.45 there is a passage that goes: 'The expansions of the IMF's membership, together with the changes in the world economy, have required the IMF to adapt in a variety of ways to continue serving its purposes effectively'. If you plug this sentence into Google you get a link to the IMF Wikipedia page. I caught this within 60 seconds of opening the thesis. There's one more I found a page later. I tried twice with a hit rate of two out of two. Readers may want to look for more. My impression is the thesis is generally OK - the plagiarism may only be limited to boilerplate factoid stuff like this on the IMF. But it would be good to alert readers to comb through it using Google."
Update: Here is a Wiki to track instances of plagiarism in Saif Gadaffhi's thesis:
http://saifalislamgaddafithesis.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Original Thesis of Saif Gadaffhi - THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DEMOCRATISATION OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS: From 'Soft Power' to Collective Decision-Making:
http://saifalislam.ly/files/2010/06/19ca14e7ea6328a42e0eb13d585e4c22.pdf
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/22/saif-gadaffhi-plagia.html
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_m31urYR_nYw/TTO7SNf-PRI/AAAAAAAAAmI/ZdD3fE_r3c0/s1600/...
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samthesixth
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The son is an a'hole and a murderer.
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