This Zack Jud guy seems to be upset that some 12 year old girl stole his thunder. I read the poorly written article (they don’t seem to require writing skills to be a writer these days) and it appears that what this girl did was to do an experiment to test the theory that Lion Fish could migrate into freshwater estuaries. Jud didn’t test his own hypothesis or his own research.
The girl did and he’s upset because she didn’t credit him.
Now everyone is trying to accuse her of plagerism.
Her laboratory tests were completely independent of his own field research.
“Now everyone is trying to accuse her of plagerism.”
How is this plagiarism? We all get ideas from thousands of sources every day. That’s why we have Books and the likes...
Plagiarism is the “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author’s “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as one’s own original work. Which, BTW, I didn’t just make up...
All scientific work has it’s root in the work of others.
It is a 6th grade science fair, this Marine Biologist PUBLISHED his findings in 2011, thus he should get credit for the discovery. However; who expects 6th graders to come up with new and ground breaking discoveries? Generally they will try to duplicate other peoples experiments. So why is this guy so upset? His discoveries are not allowed to be tested by others? Has he ever heard of peer review? What are they teaching scientists these days?
Oh, silly me, they are teaching them how to beg for grant money.