Doesn’t the Greek Goddess have the money not to fund plagiarism?

Because that’s the accusation now being made against a new Arianna Huffington/HuffPost spin-off venture.

HuffPost Editor Jonah Peretti says, no, it’s all a big misunderstanding, that HuffPost is just trying to send traffic in the direction of The Onion and alt-weekly Chicago Reader, among others.

Bullshit in spades. Both of those folks are plenty big enough, and at least the The Onion, have had well-established website presences long enogh before Arianna came along, they don’t need HuffPost’s “help.”

Also, people who complain about this and similar shenanigans at HuffPost are getting cybercensored.

I hope the scandal “helps” HuffPost continue to tumble down the stairs of worthwhileness (as it already has), with a good, swift cyberkick in Arianna’s solar plexus.

Medical research plagiarism real problem, not political plagiarism

Medical research plagiarism appears to have a fair amount of “traction,” shall we say. What else could you say about people doing this half a doz3en times or more.

And, what if people are dying over this?

Imagine people dying because one shoddy study overtouting a drug, or hiding interaction or reaction problems, gets plagiarized and spread.

Or, imagine Big Pharma actually paying somebody to plagiarize a study a pharma company has already paid for.