Remember Donald Rapp, the guy who, well, let's be nice, had a lot of stuff in a book he published, that, just by coincidence was exactly the same as other stuff that appeared in the Wegman Report (if you don't know what this is about is go over and take a look at Deep Climate on Rapp, Wegman and everything else) and, in the words of the limerick the question was who had copied and pasted what from whom. Well, as time passed it turns out that Rapp, who was an adjunct at USC (he had earlier retired from JPL where he held a senior position, these guys are the real emeriti) was invited not to reapply at USC without explaining himself, so he left some spittle on the video monitor and huffed off.
Ah, you say young bunnies, that explains the Jerk in the title of the post, but what about the circles. Well, it further turns out that the editor guy who accepted the Said and Wegman paper that has now been thrown out (withdrawn is, shall we say a minced version of reality) for plagiarism, Stanley Azen, is also Assistant Dean of Research Integrity. At USC.Eli closes with Deep Climate's question
Is your head spinning in this hall of mirrors yet?
Your summary version of this post doesn't make any sense
ReplyDeleteMight one say, then, that Donald's received a Rapp across the knuckles?
ReplyDeleteGet's hat...
Anon, this is Rabett Run, obscure is what Eli does.
ReplyDeleteWhat about those polygons?
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't obscure like Eli, so see 17-pager @ DeSmogBLog.
ReplyDeletePut coffee down first before reading Wegman's email.
Eli, what anon means is that there's a glitch, er, that is to say Blogger "feature," in the front page version of the post that somehow cuts out about six lines of text.
ReplyDeleteGot it, Eli thinks.
ReplyDeleteActually, some stuff is still missing on the home page.
ReplyDeleteNot spinning are the mirrors in any case.
ReplyDeleteAnon, what's the problem with sophisticated one dimensional polygons?
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