Re: Big Mig - honest, dishonest?

In article <1180565209.561085.196930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
rechungREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On May 30, 11:35 am, "b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
your wife's anecdote provides maybe
the best distinction I've seen yet. The research assistant's
plagiarism was unethical, but hardly rises to being immoral.
The author's assertion of authorship was ethical (in keeping
with accepted practice in the field) but immoral.

I tried to get my wife to go through with the book review. How would
you have classified that?

Hilarious?

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"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
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