A new study indicates that lots of bits of old studies turn up, verbatim, in lots of newer scientific studies. The new study (which I have not checked to see whether it contains uncredited copied text) is: “Patterns of text reuse in a scientific corpus,” Daniel T. Citron and Paul Ginsparg [pictured here], Proceedings of the […]
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Mirror Sniffing – contagious?
If you watch a movie which shows actors engaging in acts of sniffing, are you likely to sniff along with them? The Olfactory Research Group, of the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel have investigated the possibilities, and name such behaviour ‘Mirror Sniffing’. [That’s in the sense of a mirrored or copied […]
Comparing (almost) identical papers – a steganographic exercise
As those keen on encryption and decryption will know, there are quite a few documented methods by which ‘secret’ messages can be concealed within apparently straightforward-looking chunks of text. Indeed, the original meaning of the word ‘Steganography‘ is simply ‘concealed writing’. For example, two blocks of text which at first glance appear alike can have […]