German education minister loses Ph.D. over plagiarized
thesis
By Ben Brumfield, CNN February 6, 2013
German education minister Annette Schavan arrives for a German government
cabinet meeting on January 23 in Berlin, Germany.
(CNN) -- Her doctoral
thesis dealt with how we form our conscience. Turns out she plagiarized chunks
of it. A university stripped Germany's education minister of her Ph.D. on
Tuesday, after a blogger caught the plagiarism and spent months vigilantly
presenting the evidence to the public.
Annette Schavan is the
second minister in conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet who has this
embarrassing distinction. Former defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
stepped down in May 2011, after large passages of his dissertation were found
to have been directly copied from other sources.
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