Years before his own great science fraud (Sutton 2016), fellow of the Royal Society, Charles Darwin's (FRS) grandfather (Erasmus Darwin FRS) almost got away with the first recorded case of pharmacological plagiarism by claiming that Withering's discovery of digitalis as a cure for dropsy was that of his own deceased son. Erasmus sought to build up his own fame by slyly establishing that it was a Darwin family discovery (see here). Full details can be read here.
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+One has to wonder what hope Darwin The Plagiarist had of not being so named. His grandfather Erasmus was twice caught out in serious acts of plagiarism, as was his geological mentor Charles Lyell. Get facts not the Darwinian foot washing worship claptrap https://t.co/8yXeE3atEE pic.twitter.com/5mLanlyQeN
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) November 13, 2019
This was not Erasmus Darwin's only famous act of plagiary. He also plagiarized verses from the poet Anna Seaward for his most famous poem The Botanic Garden. Here,
Not only that by Darwin's geological mentor Charles Lyell (who along with Joseph Hooker orchestrated the Darwin and Wallace Linnean Debacle, where each plagiarized Patrick Matthew's theory) was also an arch plagiarist. Get the details of Lyell's plagiarism from the tweet below.
Does the book mention fact that on many occasions others were outraged Lyell stole their ideas and research and passed it off as his own? Lyell was a plagiarist - just like his protege known today as "Darwin the Plagiarist".— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) November 13, 2019
1. https://t.co/HPZbbl8mzG
2. https://t.co/gQx1lZhfdn
