The Ministry of Technology and Science and the Ministry of Education must act in defense of intellectual property and academic integrity, and take former Hsinchu mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) to task over allegations that he plagiarized his master’s thesis, the New Power Party (NPP) caucus said yesterday.
A report commissioned by the Hsinchu Science Park Administration that compared Lin’s thesis, which he obtained from Chung Hua University, and the document he is accused of plagiarizing showed that of the 18,806 words in Lin’s thesis, only 2,215 were original content, which if true means that about 88 percent of the thesis was