Unlike the usual university plagiarism policy which is typically something bland copied from another university, the University of Bergen has explained the problem, and consequences, of plagiarism with Hollywood-level production values.
(Be sure to click on “CC” for the English subtitles.)
I came across the video from the blog of Andrew Gelman, who has long chronicled plagiarism and other forms of scientific misconduct. From his post, I also learned about my new favorite plagiarism story.
The production value of this is pretty amazing. And the content is quite risque at times! I wonder if it will go viral…
Obviously fun to watch, but I can’t help but wonder how much and whose money was spent on that…
Given how big a deal they make about citing *everything*, I was surprised there was no citation for the line about creating a GUI interface using Visual Basic. Did I just miss it?
That was original research, I think.