...and other material, including text from scientist it was blasting
(NEWSER) - An influential 2006 congressional report questioning the validity of global warming research was heavily plagiarized, lifting sections from textbooks, Wikipedia, and even one of the scientists it criticized, according to experts contacted by the USA Today . A year-long analysis by one of the experts found that 35 of the report's 91 pages "are mostly plagiarized text, but often injected with errors, bias and changes of meaning." The cribbing doesn’t invalidate the report’s complaints about climate statistics, but “it kind of undermines the credibility of your work criticizing others’ integrity when you don’t conform to the basic rules of scholarship,” said one plagiarism guru. More»
