When I started climbing the academic ladder beginning in 1960, the cardinal academic sin is plagiarism . After all, publications and your peers’ judgement of them is what an academic lives on and the only worthwhile currency in the profession. Half a century later according to a NPR radio program ...
Not a Good Practice for Students (II) First of all, read my blog six years ago https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-1565-218436.html . Apparently a new generation of students were not taught this accepted academic practice. Instead, because of the chaos and suffering in China from 1850-1950 due to wa ...