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Post by Guest Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:42 pm

This slack attitude goes right to the top. Successful Indian grant applications often copy text from grants submitted in other countries. And a 2010 report on genetically modified crops prepared by officials from six Indian science academies simply cut-and-pasted text from a previous publication. India doesn't take the offence seriously. Researchers who are shown to have committed plagiarism — which is serious misconduct, and enough in many countries to end a career — are typically given only a note of instruction not to do it again....

The final change that the education reform can bring about for Indian science is to alter the selection and attitudes of scientists who make it to tenured positions. At present, too many see science as a route to a stable career in administration. They want to leave the laboratory at the earliest possible opportunity — perhaps because they have never learned the true nature and satisfaction of a research job well done. In my 20-year scientific career, I have rarely seen any researchers who wish to work in the lab instead of opting for a desk job. Most of the best Indian scientists initially did very well at the bench but soon went into administration, losing their talent in the office files.


http://www.nature.com/news/stop-teaching-indians-to-copy-and-paste-1.20157#auth-1

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