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[theweaselking]

The Bush method of eliminating fraud in government contracts: If you punish everyone who *reports* fraud heavily enough, nobody will report it. If nobody reports it, it’s not happening.

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[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's not just there, either. I have friends who were involved in finding widespread plagiarism in engineering ethics courses at Carleton, and there was quite a bit of this shooting of messengers. Further investigations were blocked, even though it is more than likely that this was quite a bit more widespread.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Given that the professors teaching the classes were blatantly plagiarising most of their "lecture material" and had been doing so for years while assigning failing grades based on random selection to make it look like they'd done more than given 98% marks for name + student number on earlier coursework?

NOBODY was surprised at those results. Nobody in the slightest.

[jerril]

I find it hillarious that this was in the Ethics course.

Right up there with the #1 shoplifted book at the Algonquin college bookstore being the textbook for the Ethics course...

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

Sixty Minutes had episodes on whistleblowers on and off for years. I don't think anything ever was done about any of the incidents.