Hi Jose, I have some questions to ask you for which I would like studied answers - not your burst of unrelated statements. This should help the students at Cornell University etc., who you and Santosh suggest / accuse of plagiarizing.
This afternoon I attended our weekly medical staff Grand-Rounds at our hospital. A final-year medical student made a presentation on Alzheimer Disease. His power-point slides (about 50) had a lot of data and pictures. There were absolutely no references. I was thinking about you, as I listened to this impressive presentation. Is the above presentation any different from a medical presentation done at other teaching hospitals? Did this medical student do any / all this original research about the facts he presented? Do your medical students do the same, if not please enlighten how they get their training in the Bahamas? Was the researched material of this presentation confined to published data? Is that type of "distilled" information what the audience wants to hear? Was this medical student plagiarizing his data, facts and information? When you teach students, do you present information and facts, most of which are not your original work? If they happen to be your original work, would you permit your students to use it or would that be plagiarized information? If one does not want the students to use the facts and information provided, why does one teach? Should med. students, residents and other doctors not be allowed to present the info from textbooks and journals they research and study? If they do so, should they be giving reference for every item of fact? Why would one spend time reading medical books if not to gain from the authors' ideas? Why would one pay an author and publisher to buy a textbook if one cannot use the information gained from the book? If one is not a physical eyewitness to history, can one recount historical events or would that be plagiarized information? Should articles in Time, Newsweek magazines and newspapers have references? I am not interested in off-the-top responses that do not address these specific issues. Please give some thoughtful and intellectual answers. If you cannot, perhaps you can save your efforts and make this your's and my last post. As you know, many on Goanet have stopped dialoguing with you, because many of your responses and comments are just off-the-wall and not worth being dignified with a response. Regards, GL
