The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society and its
publisher, Oxford University Press (OUP), are knowingly acting like a fence for
stolen goods in selling my stolen research findings to their innocently unknowing
subscribers and other paying customers in order to mislead them into believing
the underhand cherry-picked plagiarized data and desperate arguments of Dr Dagg and Dr Weal. Why
on Earth would they do such a thing? Perhaps the answer is because the newly
discovered facts of my research are simply too painful to bear and the New Data from my research so valuable they couldn't resist stealing it? And as a
world-renowned expert (published by OUP no less) on stolen goods markets I think
that criminal fence analogy is most fitting.
In their respective papers, in the Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society Dr Weal and Dr Dagg do the following:
- They
plagiarise one of my important research findings, under every widely
accepted definition of what constitutes research plagiarism.
- They
cherry-pick plagiarised it and so conceal from their readership the other
data in my list, which undermines the arguments they make. Cherry picking
your own data to do such a thing is serious science fraud. Cherry pick
plagiarising the findings of another is surely equally, or more, serious.
- Dr
Dagg committed this plagiarism maliciously, which is proven by his own
blog posts on both me and my finding that he has plagiarised; comments he
published before and after he plagiarised it.
- Because
the research finding Dr Weale and Dr Dagg plagiarised could only ever have
been found with my IDD research method (Sutton 2014b, Sutton and Griffith
2018), they also, in effect, plagiarise that original research method.
Read on to learn the full story, with all the independently
verifiable facts and sources, of the most ironic plagiarism in the history of
science.
References
Dagg, J. L. (2018) Comparing the respective transmutation mechanisms of Patrick Matthew, Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 123, Issue 4, April 2018, Pages 864–878, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly003
Weale, M. E. (2015) Patrick Matthew's Law of Natural Selection: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 115, Issue 4, August 2015, Pages 785–791 https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/115/4/785/2530994
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Perhaps the un-scientific embarrassing multiple irony of what has been done is not lost on those who have seriously plagiarised my research, and on those who have, to date, arguably, undermined scientific integrity and the publication record by refusing to acknowledge and deal with that serious repeat victimisation plagiarism. That irony being my research into the history of plagiarism of the theory of evolution by natural selection, the theory first published by the Scot Patrick Matthew, has been most seriously plagiarised by two authors, in two separate papers in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, which effectively seek to argue that Darwin and Wallace did not plagiarise Matthew’s theory in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society in 1858, of which the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society is a direct descendant. On which note, as (Iphofen 2017) poignantly writes about my peer reviewed research on plagiarism:
'...we must guard against the temptation to corrupt practices that many see as undermining scientific integrity. These include plagiarism, failure to acknowledge prior-work, biased peer-reviewing, and, in effect, poorly constructed desk or secondary research. Of course, there is nothing new in such discreditable activities. Sutton (2014) offers evidence that Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace clearly plagiarised the earlier ideas of Patrick Matthew without sufficient acknowledgment and Darwin then used his elite connections to ensure he would not be scooped by Wallace.' [My emphasis].
Detailed Repeat Victim Impact and Context Statement Regarding the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Refusing to Admit to or Address Repeat Victimization Plagiarism of my Prior-Published Original Research
(Dr Mike Sutton, August 2020)
Please Note: Full references to all publications cited are
included at the end of this repeat victim statement.
The plagiarism and cherry picking plagiarism fraud comprises
Dr Weale and Dr Dagg in their separate papers doing the following in each
paper:
- Using
one important high-quality finding from my prior published research
(Sutton 2014, 2014a, 2015. 2017b) without citation to that research.
- By default,
plagiarising the unique Big Data mining method (Sutton 2014b, Sutton and
Griffiths 2018) used to make the finding, because the finding could not
have been made without that method.
- Cherry-picking
plagiarism of that one important finding from my research to effectively
mislead readers by not mentioning other findings in that same
prior-published research. Those other findings independently, and as a
collective weight of evidence, can be understood to disconfirm the
arguments the plagiarisers make using the one finding they plagiarised.
- The
fact that only one of my high quality research findings has been
plagiarised cannot ethically, rationally, or reasonably – in accordance
with all guidance, rules and regulations on research plagiarism – be used
as a guilt neutralisation excuse by the plagiarisers, Editor or OUP. This
is a most important point, that I cannot emphasize enough, because the
fact that only one of my findings has been plagiarised means three things
(a) as in point 3 above, readers have been misled by deliberate cherry
picking from my research findings, (b) high quality (not quantity)
research findings plagiarism is the serious issue here (c) not dealing
appropriately with this example of serious repeat plagiarism of my
research will effectively give the authors and others a perceived licence
to do the same with that and many more future illicit “use of one single
research finding plagiarism” from my research and from the research of
others in future OUP publications and elsewhere.
- The
fact the same finding first plagiarised by Dr Weale has been repeat
plagiarised by Dr Dagg, in the very same journal, is proof of the high
value of that finding and also strongly suggests that unless this
plagiarism is dealt with appropriately, repeat victimisation by plagiarism
will multiply even further by the same or by other authors in the same
journal and or in other publications.
- The
plagiarism is deliberate, because both authors are proven to have prior
read and prior-published their knowledge of my research and that finding
in it. What they each publish on their own blog sites about my research
before they plagiarised it is independently verifiable evidence of their
prior knowledge of that finding. Both Dr Weale and Dr Dagg clearly took
that finding directly from my original prior-published research with no
reference to the research they took it from. That is serious research
plagiarism under any definition.
- It
is my considered belief that in plagiarising my research in the way they
have, given the weight of the independently verifiable evidence presented
in this victim statement, both Dr Weale and Dr Dagg have committed serious
academic science fraud by deliberate cherry-picking plagiarism of my
research.
- In
the case of Dr Dagg, what the has written in his reviews of my books and
his own blog posts about me and my research, published before he
plagiarised my research, and after, confirm his plagiarism is malicious.
The research that has been plagiarised was conducted in
2013-2014, when I was employed as Reader in Criminology at Nottingham Trent
University (NTU). NTU published a press brief on the research (see Nottingham
Trent University 2014).
The plagiarised research is by no means of minor
significance. My research findings have been reported in many newspapers and
other publications, including national newspapers: The Daily Telegraph (2014)
and the Daily Mail [Scotland Edition] (Caven 2014) and The Scotsman (newsroom
2016).
The ‘Selby cited Matthew in 1842’ original finding from my
research is not yet common knowledge. Yet that exact research finding has been
cherry-picked plagiarised from my larger list of those newly discovered, in my
research, to have cited Matthew (1831). To be clear, my research finding has
been plagiarised. It has been repeatedly plagiarised, because it has been
published in two different articles in the Biological Journal of the Linnean
Society. My Selby finding was taken from a larger list of my research findings,
of writers I newly discovered cited Patrick Matthew’s (1831) book pre-1858,
without credit to the source of my research that originally uncovered and first
published it. In fact, it was used with no credit to me whatsoever. That is
serious intellectual property theft of my research finding and the method used
to make the finding.
Further detailed background information
In July 2020, I provided the full details of the
plagiarism of my research, by Dr Weale and Dr Dagg, to the Chief Editor of the
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society John Allen. The evidence I sent shows
my research was knowingly plagiarised. I also sent the original publication
details of my research, thus proving its provenance and that is has, therefore
been plagiarised.
John Allen replied to me by claiming that use of this key
and important original research finding without referencing the prior-published
research that the plagiarist took it from is not research plagiarism. His is
response in this regard is not only highly inappropriate but also totally
unacceptable.
Moreover, I think John Allen’s stated belief is surely, patently,
and profoundly wrong and out of line with all accepted, definitions of what
amounts to research plagiarism, as opposed to merely copying text.
The length and occasional repetition in this victim
statement will hopefully ensure that those now also in receipt of the same
independently verifiable evidence provided herein may be left in no reasonable
doubt that serious repeat research plagiarism has occurred and will understand
its serious nature, consequences, impact on me as the victim and the need to
act accordingly with integrity before the same or other authors further
plagiarise my research and further subvert the historic publication record.
I have never felt the need to complain officially about
plagiarism of my research before and I am shocked by the response I have
received. To date, I am extremely disappointed with the behaviour of The Editor
of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Firstly, the research plagiarised is the relatively newly uncovered fact, uncovered by my research, (e.g. Sutton 2014, 2014a, 2015, 2017b) that the naturalist Selby (1842) cited the recognised member of the Scottish Enlightenment, botanist, agriculturalist, famous fruit hybridiser and forester, Patrick Matthew (1831) in 1842. Secondly, this plagiarism includes plagiarising the newly unearthed title and full reference for the book in which, my research discovered, Selby (1842) cited Matthew (1831). Thirdly, by default, the plagiarism includes plagiarising my unique research method (see Sutton 2014b and particularly Sutton and Griffiths 2018 for full details of the method) used to find this important new data in the historic publication record in the field of the history of scientific discovery. Fourthly, by cherry-pick plagiarising just one finding from my research, Dr Weale and Dr Dagg have engaged in misleading science fraud by concealing the other evidence in my research that can be used to dis-confirm the argument they make in their papers.
To emphasise by repeating the above point, plagiarism of
my ‘Selby cited Matthew in 1842’ original research finding also seriously
plagiarises the unique research method I developed and employed to find it.
Namely, the Internet Date Detection, Big Data, research method (see Sutton
2014b and Sutton and Griffiths 2018 to see our detailed peer reviewed article
on the method). Unless you were to know in advance that Selby’s book cited
Matthew’s book, which is something no known writer has ever mentioned before,
and so search on Selby or the title of his book, no other method tried before
or since was able to detect the fact it did. Therefore, to understand and
appreciate the seriousness of the repeat plagiarism of my research, it is
imperative to understand that without use of the IDD research method the ‘Selby
cited Matthew (1832) in 1842’ finding, could not, and arguably never would have
been found by future researchers in this field.
Pertinent contextual historical facts of the area of
research: Understanding the value of the finding that has been repeat
plagiarised:
- Matthew’s
(1831) book is accepted by the world’s leading experts on the topic (e.g.
by de Beer 1962, Mayr 1982, Dawkins 2010, Darwin 1861, and Wallace 1879)
as containing the first fully published theory of evolution by natural
selection.
- Professor
Loren Eiseley (1859) wrote a festschrift book on Darwin. Later he
discovered that Darwin had, in his private essay of 1844, replicated
Matthew’s (1831) highly idiosyncratic forester’s explanatory analogy of
differences between trees selected by nature, growing in the wild, and
those selected and raised artificially in nurseries. That one key research
finding absolutely convinced Eiseley that his hero had committed plagiarising
science fraud of Matthew’s prior published theory (Eiseley 1979). For my
own part, having first used my IDD research method to surprisingly debunk
a number of facts about who coined what term, phrase or concept, I used it
to research the process of natural selection and the term and concept
Selfish Gene in the expectancy that at least my science hero’s Darwin and
Dawkins should be rightfully attributed with their claims to science fame.
As my paper with Professor Mark Griffiths (Sutton and Griffiths 2018)
proves, I was wrong about Dawkins. As my books and peer reviewed articles
on Darwin Wallace and Matthew reveal, it surprisingly turned out I was
also surely wrong about Darwin too (Sutton 2014b).
- Prior
to my research (e.g. Sutton, 2014, 2015, 2018) expert knowledge had it
(e.g. de Beer 1962, Mayr 1982) that no one whatsoever/no naturalist and
certainly no one in Darwin or Wallace’s circles had read Patrick Matthew’s
(1831) published theory of what he called the “natural process of
selection” before Darwin and Wallace supposedly independently replicated
it in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (1858) and
Darwin’s Origin of Species (1858), where Darwin named it the “process of
natural selection” and replicated many of Matthew’s unique explanatory
analogies of difference and other highly idiosyncratic yet key explanatory
examples of the theory. In reply to Matthew’s (1860) published letter
claiming his priority, Darwin (1860) claimed to have independently
discovered the theory. He went further to claim, ‘no single person’
(Darwin 1861a) and elsewhere ‘no naturalist’ (Darwin 1861) had read
Matthew’s prior published breakthrough before publication of the origin of
Species in 1859. That was a total knowing falsehood, a blatant lie if you
will. Because Matthew (1860) had already informed him otherwise and told
him of Loudon’s book review and of an unnamed Scottish naturalist who had
read it and feared to teach it for fear of pillory punishment for heresy.
Wallace kept silent on the matter and so effectively claimed innocence on
the question of his prior knowledge of Matthew’s prior-published
breakthrough. Later, however, Wallace (1879) wrote that Matthew was one of
the greatest thinkers in the first half of the 19th century
and did originate the theory he and Darwin replicated (Wallace 1879), and
more besides.
- As
said, the naturalist Loudon, who was editor of the Magazine of Natural
History, had read Matthew’s book. He reviewed it in 1832 and wrote that
Matthew appeared to have something important to say on what he termed “the
origin of species”, no less. Dempster (1983, 1996, 2005) pointed it out in
his important research in the field, but the fact Loudon was editor of a
famous naturalist magazine, was a naturalist known to Darwin and his inner
circle, and published two papers by Darwin’s prolific correspondent on
species, Blyth (1835, 1836) was seemingly unknown by other experts on the
topic. It has, therefore, been generally ignored in most of the academic
literature on Darwin apart from mention in the important published
research by Dempster. Eiseley (1979), did however produce convincing
evidence that Darwin (1858, 1859) had plagiarised important ideas on
evolution of varieties from Blyth.
- I
have a list of over 25 people newly proven by my 2014, 2018 research to
have cited Matthew’s (1831) book. Seven were naturalists, four of those
seven were known to Darwin pre 1858. Three of those four (including the
valuable, dual plagiarised, Selby discovery) played major roles at the
epicentre of influence on Darwin and Wallace pre-1858, on their
influencers and their influencer’s influencers. The Selby (1842) cited
Matthew discovery from that list, uniquely discovered by my research, is
among the most important in the new data on this topic. As my book (Sutton
2014, 2016) and peer reviewed article on this topic (Sutton 2015)
emphasise, Darwin’s father was a houseguest of Selby, as were other
naturalists known to Darwin and Darwin’s inner circle. Selby’s great
friend was Jenyns, who was Darwin’s friend and most prolific correspondent
(on Selby’s friendship with Darwin’s father and Jenyns see Jackson 1992).
Importantly, as my prior published research (e.g. Sutton 2014, 2014a,
2015, 2017b) reveals, Selby was, at the time it was published, editor of
the Journal that published Wallace’s (1855) famous Sarawak paper on
evolution, which Darwin read pre-1858.
- The above facts prove why the newly unearthed Selby data from my research is of high quality and is very important when it comes to the question of whether Darwin read Matthew pre 1858 and whether Wallace read Matthew pre 1858.
What is plagiarism, particularly research findings plagiarism?
The University of Oxford (2020) provides us with arguably
the world’s most famous definition of what constitutes plagiarism (my
emphasis):
"Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition."
The article by Dr Weale and the article by Dr Dagg each use my prior published Selby data without any acknowledgement whatsoever to where they found it. So how is that not plagiarism?
Where research findings are used without reference to
where they originated then that is defined as citation plagiarism, which is a
sub-type of research plagiarism. That is what Dr Weale and Dr Dagg did in their
respective articles in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Citation plagiarism may occur through careless attitudes
towards citation (Saunders 2010) or it may occur through an act of what Allen
(2007) calls ‘blatant plagiarism’, which is done with an aim to steal the
research finding in order to deceive others by taking credit for it. However,
it seems reasonable to assume that in other cases citation plagiarism may be
motivated or by a sole or perhaps additional wish not to reference the original
source of the research finding due to professional embarrassment, malice,
jealousy or some other pseudo-scholarly ulterior motive. In that case the
motivation may be to have the finding wrongly perceived as something widely
known and not attributable to anyone. In some cases, perhaps citation
plagiarism is motivated by the plagiariser’s perceptions of academic discipline
rivalry that may involve trying to double-guess readership, peer review and
editorial arrogance, personal dislike of the victim, their research findings,
their interpretation of those findings and conclusions, or individual and
disciplinary jealously regarding the discovery of the data they decided to
plagiarise.
Plagiarising a research finding can also constitute
‘research method plagiarism’ if the method used to make that finding is
original, because if only that original method could make the finding the
plagiarist will also, by default, most certainly plagiarise the method used to
find it. As explained above, that is the case in the plagiarism of my Selby
cited Matthew pre-1858 finding. By plagiarising that research finding, both Dr
Weale and Dr Dagg have by default plagiarised the unique Big Data Internet Date
Detection research method (Sutton and Griffiths 2018) used to find it.
Independent expert peer reviewers of that peer reviewed article I wrote with
Professor Griffith’s agreed the unique IDD method is a new Big Data research
method that has been used in my research to make significant research findings
of this kind.
'The term plagiarism derives from the Latin word
“plagiarius,” meaning “kidnapper” or “abductor.” Although plagiarism is
difficult to define in few words, it can be viewed as the stealing of another
person's ideas, methods, results, or words without giving
proper attribution…. The ORI defines plagiarism as being “theft or
misappropriation of intellectual property and the substantial unattributed
textual copying of another's work.”… The Committee on Publication Ethics
(COPE), UK, has defined plagiarism as “the unreferenced use of others published
and unpublished ideas.” (Juyal, D., Thawani, V., & Thaledi, S. 2015). (My
emphasis).
The fact Dr Weale’s and Dr Dagg’s plagiarism of my
research is subtle does not make it any less serious. Arguably it makes it more
serious because it is so deceptive. This is something that the Editor of the
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society seems to know or care nothing about.
As Dougherty (2020. p.1) explains:
“I have requested retractions of 125 published articles in humanities fields in recent years. A large portion of these articles exhibited very subtle forms of plagiarism. … When undetected plagiarising articles produce widespread inefficiencies in the wider system of knowledge production, not only are researchers denied credit for their discoveries, but plagiarizing articles take up space in journals that should have been reserved for articles for authentic researchers.”
Quality not quantity
It is most important to repeat another point already
made, in order to emphasise the fact, that the plagiarism of my research by Dr
Weale and Dr Dagg is not an issue of a quantity being plagiarised, it is about
the quality of what has been plagiarised. It is also about the insidious
subtlety in which that was deliberately done and the malice behind it.
The Selby data, uncovered by my research, that has been
plagiarised is not only relatively new, it is also highly significant and of
extremely high quality in the specific field of research into the history of
scientific discovery and scientific plagiarism of breakthroughs in knowledge
and prior-published research findings of others. On the issue of whether Darwin
and Wallace plagiarised Matthew, it is highly significant, important and new.
As explained above, the Selby cited Matthew in 1842
discovery provides clear evidence of the existence of a previously totally
unknown route for potential ‘Matthew to Darwin and Wallace’ knowledge
contamination (Sutton 2015) of both Darwin and Wallace and their subsequent
publications. Such potential knowledge transmission, in whole or part, could
have occurred directly or in some way via others known to Selby, Darwin and
Wallace. Others including but not limited to Darwin’s father (who was Selby’s
friend) or Darwin’s and Selby’s mutual friend Jenyns.
“…whether or not one article plagiarises another may turn
on a judgement of the originality of the interpretation of scientific
experiment or a data set.” (Saunders, 2010). (My emphasis)
"...plagiarism (in principle) can consist in as
little as one word, while there are many standard sentences
describing research methods that will not be plagiarism even if, in fact, copied
from someone else. This is to say that the unmarked reuse of some very short
passages might be plagiarism, even though the reuse of other equally short
passages would not. The conclusion to draw from this is that plagiarism
has to do with quality rather than quantity – or, more precisely,
with what is unique rather than so common that it cannot
be attributed to anyone." (Helgesson and Eriksson (2015). (My
emphasis).
The verifiable fact the unique Selby data from my
research has been twice plagiarised in the Biological Journal of the Linnean
society is clear proof of the high quality and importance of the research that
has been plagiarised. Surely it was plagiarised twice precisely because it is
such a valuable newly discovered fact that Selby read and cited Matthew’s book
before Darwin or Wallace penned a word on the topic of evolution by natural
selection. What other reason could there be?
The fact the unique Selby Data has been plagiarised a
second time in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society is proof that the
scientific record in the history of science has been corrupted with one
incident of plagiarism leading to another and needs, therefore, to be rectified
before further incidents occur to corrupt the publication record in the history
of scientific discovery and research into priority and plagiarism.
Engaging in the subterfuge of cherry picking one author from my prior published original research findings (Sutton 2014, 2017b), of who I newly discovered did cite Matthew (1831) pre 1858, to effectively make deceptive fact concealment arguments when examining the evidence for routes of potential knowledge contamination (transmission) from Matthew’s (1831) book to the later published works of Darwin, Wallace and others is misleading the scientific community.
Using my Selby research finding without citation to the
research and method that uncovered it, in order to make the argument, as Dr
Weale and Dr Dagg do, that no naturalist understood Matthew’s theory, is, in my
opinion, engaging in science fraud not only by plagiary but highly deliberate
deceptive cherry picking. Because, by way of just one relevant example among
many others I found in my research, that I could use here, I also originally
unearthed the fact that Jameson (1853) cited Matthew’s 1831 book and
observations in it. Jameson was the nephew of Darwin’s Edinburgh Professor,
employee of the East India Company and regular pre-1858 correspondent of
William Hooker (father of Darwin’s best friend and botanical mentor Joseph
Hooker). William Hooker, also a friend of Darwin, was sponsor, mentor, customer
for his ‘collected’ wildlife and correspondent of Wallace. All pre-1858.
Jameson (1853) cited Matthew and wrote about one area of
Matthew’s book on how some species of tree may sometimes fare better when
transplanted outside their native areas. Jameson reveals that he fully
understood the importance of Matthew’s observation for economic botany. The
devout Christian gentleman scientist Selby, on the other hand, was writing in
1842, at a time when such an idea was deemed far more unacceptably heretical to
Christians who believed their God designed nature and put everything where it
was most ideally and best suited to serve the interests of humans above all
else. Most importantly, that idea, and other heretical for Christians ideas, in
Matthew’s book, was also mentioned in a major book review of 1831 in the United
Services Journal, which instructed readers to not even to dare think about such
ideas. And Jameson is just one example of the newly discovered to have cited
Matthew (1831) authors in my research findings that Dr Weal’s and Dr Dagg’s
cherry picking research findings plagiarism effectively, and misleadingly,
conceal by failing to cite the source of the Selby cited Matthew pre-1858
discovery.
To emphasise the point just made, plagiarising from my list of those newly discovered by the IDD method to have cited Matthew (1831) pre-1858, (As Dr Weale and Dr Dagg have done) not only plagiarises the IDD method as well as my data, it also most seriously, effectively fraudulently in my opinion, hides not only the other findings in my research but also hides the power of that method by failing to acknowledge just how many authors (including naturalists) in fact did read Matthew’s bombshell theory, how many were linked to Darwin and Wallace, and in what way.
The image above is from Sutton (2014) and shows Selby in
the list of 25 people newly discovered in my research to have cited Matthew’s
(1831) book before 1858
Evidence of prior knowledge and malicious intent
regarding plagiarism of my research.
In light alone of the facts presented above, my research
has been plagiarised in two articles in the Biological Journal Linnean Society,
as has the unique research method used. But this plagiarism is worse. Firstly,
it has taken place at a relatively very early stage following the publication
of my research findings. That greatly increases the chances that my research
findings will be misattributed to either Dr Weale, Dr Dagg or both. Worse still
is the independently verifiable evidence that Dr Dagg plagiarised my research
maliciously. That evidence now follows:
- Dr
Weale (2015b) read my prior published research and mentions in his article
in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society some online debates he
has had with me on it before failing to cite the source of the Selby
discovery in that article. Dr Weale explains (using my research without
attribution) that Selby cited Matthew in 1842 and Weale cites Selby’s
book, in which Selby did so, in his references section (again without
attribution to my research that found it). Clearly then, Dr Weale fails to
attribute that new ‘Selby cited Matthew pre-1858’ discovery to my
research. But that newly unearthed fact from my research, unlike the fact
that Loudon reviewed Matthew’s book knowledge, cannot be attributed to
“just anyone”. Arguably, Dr Weale is, if not deliberately falsely passing
it off as his own discovery, though giving that impression by default to
some readers, is also effectively portraying it falsely in his article to
be perceived by other readers as something widely known. The Selby finding
from my research is certainly at great risk now of being wrongly
attributed to Weale, or else falsely as something that was widely known to
anyone, as it might well be in the near future, if Dr Weale’s research
plagiarism of this high quality research finding and associated research
method plagiarism is not correctly remedied by the Biological Journal of
the Linnean Society.
- Dr
Dagg (2018a) writes that Dr Weale helped him extensively with his article.
Given the fact Dr Weale earlier plagiarised my research in his own article
and then helped another to publish an article that does the very same
thing is powerful confirmatory circumstantial evidence that Dr Weale
deliberately plagiarised my research in his article in the Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society. This supports the point made in the last
sentence of the preceding bullet point, directly above.
- Dr
Dagg, (2017) writing as “Joda” but signing his malicious review of my book
(Sutton 2017b), which contains the Selby discovery, with his real name
also proves by so doing that he read my prior published research,
including the Selby discovery, before failing to cite the source of that
research finding in his article. Dagg, therefore also commits knowing research
findings and research method plagiarism in his article, of the same kind
as Dr Weale.
- Dr
Dagg (e.g. 2014) has published various malicious blog posts about me,
before he plagiarised my research and has written and published more
malicious blog posts about that research he plagiarised after he
plagiarised it. That is verifiable evidence he has acted not only
knowingly but maliciously in plagiarising my research.
- Dr
Dagg (2016) proves on his dreadfully malicious blog that he was fully
aware of my prior-published original research finding of other
naturalists, including Jameson who cited Matthew pre-1858, before he
cherry pick plagiarised the Selby data from my research to use in his
article.
- Dr
Dagg, (2018a) in what seems to me at least to be a breach of COPE
guidelines for authors publishing in peer reviewed journals has published
a blog post to mock one peer reviewer of his paper, name another and to
write about the extensive help he received from Dr Weale and from the
Editor of the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
- Dr
Dagg (2018a) writes that Dr Derry helped him write his article. Dr Derry
has also published an insanely jealous and weirdly obsessive malicious
blog site about me and my published research and other staff at Nottingham
Trent University (NTU) and has been warned in writing by senior management
at NTU to cease sending obscene and harassing communications (e.g. Derry
2014, 2017, 2018a 2018b), libelling and harassing members of academic and
senior management there, including obsessive emailing, cyberstalking and
harassing Professor Griffiths, associated with me and my research.
- Dr
Dagg (2018b) publishes on Wikipedia to emphasise the fact that he has not
referenced my research in his article in the Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society. He does so in reply to his malicious associate Dr Derry.
Thank you for carefully reading and understanding the
importance and important consequences of the above independently verifiable
evidence.
I put the work in for many hours each day, often seven
days a week, for over two years and know the uniqueness and value of my
research results and how extremely time-consuming and difficult that research
was to conduct, as do those who plagiarised it, which is why they did so, and
why it has been done twice.
Research in the field of criminology reveals that the
best-known prediction of victimization is victimization (e.g. Farrell and Pease
2001) and that is confirmed in this case. Therefore, if not dealt with
properly, even more plagiarism of my research will almost certainly follow.
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The World's Most #Ironic Story of Research #Plagiarism: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Dissects Itselfhttps://t.co/8ZW1bhvThi pic.twitter.com/uiQgnOtrUO
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) August 14, 2020
