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Cries of 'Plagiarism' over Science Fair Project

Posted by Dante on Thursday, July 24 2014 at 10:40:33PM

"Florida teen Lauren Arrington won third place and her 15 minutes of fame with a project about lionfish, but Dr. Zack Jud says she stole it."

It must hurt to have your work stolen by a 13yr old girl, and it only be worthy of 3rd place.

"That frustration may come from the fact that Jud, who's recently graduated with his Ph.D. from Florida International University, has indeed dedicated a great deal of his career to researching the lionfish.
However, it's Lauren who's showing up on television and across the internet after her work was cited in a scientific journal. Lauren's story has appeared on NPR, CBS, and NBC among others."


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"To Jud's credit, Lauren attended his lectures on lionfish as she was doing her own research two years ago for her sixth grade science project.
She also cited Jud's work in her report, notes the Washington Post.


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"Lauren's dad says his daughter's feelings are hurt by Jud's accusations and says the little girl merely took Jud's findings a step further
'Clearly she did not discover lionfish were in the estuary,' Lauren's father Albrey Arrington told the Washington Post. 'Lauren predicted experimentally how far up the estuary they could invade.'
Arrington says he even has proof that Jud was himself shocked by Lauren's findings, which she made by changing the salinity inside tanks holding the venomous fish, in the form of emails.
'Craig (Layman, Jud's former boss and Mr. Arrington's friend) told me about the 6 ppt feeding, but I didn’t know she ramped them back up to 27 ppt in 2 hours with no ill effects,' Jud wrote in 2012, according to an e-mail shared with The Washington Post. 'That’s crazy.'"


I suppose its fortunate that he's not trying to take credit for the predictions she made. Bullying her because he's not as famous is one thing. But plagiarizing a middle-school science fair project is another thing altogether. ;p

Dante

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• ( http link ) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2704319/Scientist-insists-13-year-old-girl-ripped-research-groundbreaking-science-project-ecologists-awe.html
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