Make a doctoral thesis may be a more or less complex depending on a number of factors that those who must try to overcome: to choose a good Director of the thesis, define the problem correctly research, access to updated bibliographic sources sometimes have funding, and a large number of etceteras surely everyone will know to perfection according to personal experience. This process is so important that there are countless books devoted exclusively to guide a person on how to make a thesis.
However, the now-abandoned German Defense Minister chose the easiest and fastest way to apply copy and paste a monument in his doctoral thesis , deceiving not only his supervisor, the court assessed him and a university but a whole country including its President.
Without doubt, one of the most important ethical standards of the researcher is to give credit for ideas, sketches, models or results that other researchers have obtained and are useful for our research, there are different appointment systems as ISO 690, the APA , to name a few, evidently the former German Minister ignored completely.
This story shows that "it is easier to spot a liar and a thief", but in this case seems it will give both, so it's worth taking the time to give credit to the authors deserve we use in our thesis, developing a good chapter with all the references used, because if not things eventually fall its own weight, especially in science.
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