School student’s physics paper retracted over ‘self-plagiarism’

Funny how , when plagiarism is at stake, China ( or Chinese) are very often at the center of the controversy.

Plagarism has become one of the most distorted tools used to discredit authors and or their work. Every single word is already on the internet so are the strings of words used in ordinary descriptive language. Software such as Turnitin was never intended to pick out such things it was merely developed to see if a whole essay had been used elsewhere in another college or university. This then leads us to the conclusion that this software device is used selectively by organisations for political reasons (lower case p) or in the less extreme case could be, and hence manipulate a case against an individual . Such devices are a potential tool, and if the potential is there to use this device to discredit someone then it will be used by the malcontent person./department or university at sometime somewhere. University of Chester take note.