German defence minister ‘plagiarist’ charges
p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- German defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (right), accused of plagiarising as much as two-thirds of a legal thesis, is also having his doctor’s certificate questioned.
The revelations come from a new Wiki set up to cull the 475 pages his 2006 work, says The Local.
When 14 pages of contents and 65 pages of footnotes are taken into account, “this represents more than two-thirds of the dissertation”, says the story, going on >>>
The suave and aristocratic 39-year-old on Friday temporarily gave up the right to call himself ‘doctor,’ pending an investigation into the claims by his alma mater, the University of Bayreuth.
He acknowledged there were mistakes in the work but denied plagiarism.
But, dubbed Baron Cut-And-Paste and Zu Googleberg, zu Guttenberg is being supported by chancellor Angela Merkel and Horst Seehofer, the head of his conservative CSU party, says the story, quoting Merkel as declaring:
“The defence minister has my complete trust. I didn’t appoint a scientific assistant or someone with a doctoral dissertation. This is about the job of defence minister, which he carries out extremely well, and for me that’s what counts.”
The Local – Website finds two-thirds of Guttenberg’s thesis plagiarized, February 21, 2011
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February 21st, 2011 at 2:58 pm
The most astonishing thing is that the more he’s critisised, the more the common man seems to like him:
http://tinyurl.com/6crnnlk
February 21st, 2011 at 6:13 pm
What’s new? Biden is a proven and admitted plagiarist, but that never stopped him.
And he’s never apologized, and it was never mentioned while he was running
with Nobama, and it’s never been mentioned these past two years.
Besides, Merkel just suffered a HUGE defeat in a major regional election. She won’t be
in power much longer. Next puppet sign in please.