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
With political parties lining up their candidates to contest November’s nine-in-one local elections, the first significant mudslinging of the election season has already occurred, once again involving academic plagiarism.
The first clod was flung on Tuesday last week. Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) told a news conference that Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) who on Friday retired as mayor of Hsinchu, as he is the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) nominee for Taoyuan mayor plagiarized his 2008 master’s thesis.
The DPP returned fire. Lin denied the allegation and threatened legal action against Wang, while Lin’s academic
Allegations that Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) plagiarized his 2008 master’s thesis were a hot topic in the news this week.
If Lin had not been nominated to run for Taoyuan mayor, such a trivial report would not have been newsworthy.
However, elections commonly raise accusations of plagiarism linked to candidates, whether they graduated from top universities, private universities or universities of technology.
As an educator, I lament the stigmatization of higher education in Taiwan.
Kaohsiung City Councilor Jane Lee (李眉蓁), who was the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) candidate in the 2020 Kaohsiung mayoral by-election, was also
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) yesterday sued Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) for slander after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politician publicly accused him of academic plagiarism.
Lin’s lawyer, Yang Long-yuan (楊隆源), told reporters that Wang’s claims that Lin had copied his master’s thesis from a research report commissioned by the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau were “false” and constituted slander.
Speaking to reporters earlier yesterday, Lin said he had asked Yang to file the defamation suit with the Hsinchu District Prosecutors’ Office to protect his reputation from accusations leveled by Wang during a news conference and a