“I really am very dependent upon these Big Lebowski moments”: Curtis White reads from The Science Delusion
The last Monday morning of August feels like an oddly perfect moment to watch Curtis White, demonologist and Melville House author, reading from his 2013 instant classic The Science Delusion. In the video, White… Read more »
In his new book, Jonah Lehrer may only have learned how to plagiarize better
It must only be because his disgrace was so colossal that Jonah Lehrer was given another chance. When Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker and had two of his books pulled from… Read more »
Marco Rubio’s An American Son is a memoir, but is it also an ethics violation?
Florida senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio published his memoir, An American Son, in 2012, a year and a half into his first (and last) Senate term. The book—for which… Read more »
A complete breakdown of Rand Paul’s lies about the founding fathers
A key part of campaign law if you plan to run for president requires that you write a book, and it have a boring title. So it should come to no… Read more »
A completely real, not at all plagiarized interview with plagiarist Jonah Lehrer
This was a long week, but one full of miracles. Kindhearted megacorporation Amazon bought itself a lovely new domain name that it will use only for good; a day later,… Read more »
Plagiarism Education Week fails other moral tests
This week is Plagiarism Education Week, an admirable idea, and certainly useful after the past year, which saw a number of high profile plagiarism scandals—in fact, so many that Jonathan… Read more »
Jane Goodall accused of plagiarism
Nobody wants to hear it, but it’s become abundantly clear that Jane Goodall’s new book, Seeds of Hope, is a mess. In a story in the Daily Beast earlier this… Read more »
Should publishers wipe the slate clean?
In a year when so many writers’ reputations have been eviscerated by plagiarism and fabrication scandals, it’s interesting to consider the ways these mistakes are treated by publishers, now that ebooks,… Read more »
How journalists and press releases rewrite science
The Jonah Lehrer debacle needs no further comment here, but one interesting feature of Charles Seife’s deconstruction and evisceration of Lehrer’s Wired blog on Slate was what he called “press-release plagiarism.” Seife… Read more »
Like Jonah Lehrer in leather pants
As reported in Billboard, Rolling Stone, BoingBoing and elsewhere, venerable rock group Def Leppard are returning to the studio to re-record many of their earlier classics note for note. The… 1 / Read more »