VietNamNet Bridge – Even scientists with doctoral degrees and
well-known researchers have also been found as making plagiary or copying text
from others’ findings.
Historians distort history…
On October 5, a scientific
workshop on the revolutionist Chau Van Liem (June 29, 1902 – June 4, 1930) was
organized in An Giang province on the occasion of the 110th his birthday
anniversary.
The workshop would have caught
the attention from history experts, because this was a scientific workshop,
where researchers were expected to present their findings about the well-known
revolutionist.
However, the workshop has become
a special event in the eyes of educators because of too many big problems in
the reports presented there.
According to the organization
board, there were 46 reports to be presented at the workshop. Of these, many
reports show terrible problems. They were either copied from unreliable
sources, misspelled the names of the parents of the forefather revolutionist,
or showed wrong information.
Scientists all agree that it is
easy to access the materials about the revolutionist, because his life and
achievements have been recorded in history. Therefore, one could not imagine
that the reports presented at the workshop were so terrible with wrong and
confusing information.
Regarding Chau Van Liem’s
education, Dr Dang Phong Vu from the Ton Duc Thang Political School, MA Le
Thanh Dung from the Dong Thap University, MA Vo Thanh Hung from the Southwest
Region Steering Committee) all believed that after finishing the village
school, he left for the Collège de Cantho – now Chau Van Liem High School,
where he got the “thanh chung” degree (a kind of degree existing in the French
ruled period) in 1922 before he finished the Dong Duong (Indochina) pedagogical
school in 1924.
However, historians believe that
Chau Van Liem could not get the thanh chung degree in 1922, because Collège de
Cantho only opened the first training course in 1921.
Meanwhile, there was no
pedagogical school named Dong Duong at that time.
While the official history
reports that Chau Van Liem laid down his life for the motherland on June 4,
1930, Ho Thi Hong Chi from the An Giang provincial History Science Association
still wrote on his report that it was May 4, 1930.
There were too many different
figures about the number of people attending the demonstration organized by
Chau Van Liem before his death, thus making people confused. Some scientists
believed that there were 1000 or 1500 people at the demonstration, while other
said 5000 or 10,000.
… and making plagiarism
It seems that the historians were
very “creative” when giving new names to Chau Van Liem’s parents. Official
history sources report that Chau Van Liem is the son of Mr Chau Khac Chan and
Tran Thi To. However, Thai Tri Hai, a panel speaker, believed that they were
Chau Van Chan and Tran Thi Toi. Especially, Vo Thanh Hung, MA, gave a
completely new name Tran Khac Chuan.
However, this is just the “tip of
the iceberg.” The terrible mistakes were found only on the reports presented at
the workshop. Meanwhile, according to Dr Ngo Quang Lang, Deputy Chair of the An
Giang History Science Association, 65 articles by 68 authors were sent to the
workshop, but 19 articles, or nearly 30 percent, were not accepted.
Explaining this, Lang said that
the organization board found clear evidences that the reports were copied from
other sources, plagiarized from other scientists’ finds. Especially, some of
the reports were found as containing “strangely similar” with the ones on
Internet.
Thu Uyen
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