Did anyone see Prop 8's apology? I wonder why DCP would conclude that a "disingenuous mea culpa" posing as a "pseudo-apology" for plagiarism was mocking him?
Prop 8's hilarious mea culpa was eeriliy similar to one of DCP's prior mea culpa's for plagarizing
I'm guessing Prop 8 did this as a subtle jab at DCP's hypocrisy, DCP's habit of plagarizing and not citing sources?
I want to acknowledge a problem in a short review of mine that was published recently in Sic et Non:
http://www.patheos.com/blog...
When I went looking for statistics on homologies I was thinking about Puck Mendelssohn's review I found on online:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/c...
I copied some notes from it that were relevant to my point, stuck them among some other thoughts that I had jotted down for the piece. When I came back, I checked the reference and proceeded.
So I want to expressly and gratefully acknowledge my debt to Puck Mendelssohn's article for material (particularly the numerical data on homology) in the second and third paragraphs.
The possibility of this kind of thing has always concerned me. When one writes a lot, drawing on a multitude of sources, there is always the possibility for such a slip-up. And, plainly, I slipped up.
The data that I cited are widely available, and not unique or proprietary to Puck Mendelssohn's article, which was simply a convenient source that came up first in a Google search. Nor is his particular language especially ususual. I could easily have rephrased my presentation of the data, and, honestly, I thought I had. But, as it turns out, I hadn’t. Not enough, anyway.
At this point, I think the most efficient and practical thing to do is probably to acknowledge my use of Puck Mendelssohn's article. I’ll see if it’s possible and practicable to rephrase paragraphs two and three somewhat, but, to be honest, that seems to me a rather artificial exercise once the connection between what I wrote and what he wrote has been granted. It’s not as if I’m trying to cover that connection up, or as if I could do so.
It turns out that I can make stupid mistakes. Who knew?