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Sooner_Bob
1/31/2008, 08:52 AM
scientific articles.

Link (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=thousands-of-copycat-articles)

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A new computerized scan of the biomedical research literature has turned up tens of thousands of articles in which entire passages appear to have been lifted from other papers. Based on the study, researchers estimate that there may be as many as 200,000 duplicates among some 17 million papers in leading research database Medline.

swardboy
1/31/2008, 08:56 AM
How can we measure the effect of "copy" and "paste" on our lives?

sooner_born_1960
1/31/2008, 08:58 AM
I'm shocked.

Sooner_Bob
1/31/2008, 09:00 AM
How can we measure the effect of "copy" and "paste" on our lives?


Sounds like a new scientific study to me.

Oh . . . wait.