Author of Peer-Reviewed Creationist Paper Seeks Retraction

A paper espousing creationism and published in Proteomics, a peer-reviewed biology journal, contains more than 200 instances of plagiarism. Now, one of the paper’s authors, Jin Han, of Inje University in South Korea, is asking the editor of Proteomics that the paper be retracted.

The plagiarized paper was discussed by Paul Z. Myers’s blog, Pharyngula. Myers is Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Minnesota at Morris. Myers called the paper “a baffling failure of peer review.” Since the post was published, Meyer has received more than 238 comments about the plagiarized paper.

HT: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Creationism, Plagiarism

Stealing Your Blog

Do you know that some people may be stealing what you write and making money with the content of your blog? This is happening every day. As Elinor Mills wrote:

This is automated digital plagiarism in which software bots can copy thousands of blog posts per hour and publish them verbatim onto Web sites on which contextual ads next to them can generate money for the site owner.

Do you want to know more?

Read: Please don't steal this Web content.

Read also: Finding Stolen Content and Copyright Infringements


Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Blog, Blogging, Plagiarism