Saif Gadaffhi’s not just the scion of a lunatic dictatorial legacy, and not just the ironic recipient of a PhD from the London School of Economics in ‘The Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions’ — he’s also a plagiarist!
An anonymous source at the LSE sez, “There appears to be some *at least* minor plagiarism in this thesis. If you look at the bottom of p45 there is a passage that goes:
‘The expansions of the IMF’s membership, together with the changes in the world economy, have required the IMF to adapt in a variety of ways to continue serving its purposes effectively’.
If you plug this sentence into Google you get a link to the IMF Wikipedia page.
I caught this within 60 seconds of opening the thesis. There’s one more I found a page later. I tried twice with a hit rate of two out of two. Readers may want to look for more. My impression is the thesis is generally OK – the plagiarism may only be limited to boilerplate factoid stuff like this on the IMF. But it would be good to alert readers to comb through it using Google.”
Consider yourselves alerted.
Update: Here we are, a Wiki to track instances of plagiarism in Junior’s homework (Tx, Wheezer!)