DesiPundit

Abi points to a shocking article by William G. Schulz about alleged fraud by a chemistry professor in Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati.  Today’s news report on plagiarism in Columbia University shows that plagiarism can happen anywhere, but the scale of it in this case, and the other issues (like selling degrees) make this discovery particularly shocking.

He says a reviewer, a former student of his, pointed out that a Chiranjeevi submission on measurement of arsenic(III) was similar to a published paper from a Japanese group on chromium(III). In fact, Dasgupta says, but for the change in the name of the chemical being measured, the papers were identical.