And the newest author to be accused of plagiarism is...

...(brace yourself, because this is depressing)... Jane Goodall:

Jane Goodall, the primatologist celebrated for her meticulous studies of chimps in the wild, is releasing a book next month on the plant world that contains at least a dozen passages borrowed without attribution, or footnotes, from a variety of Web sites.

Comments

[Jenn]

Great, I think I ordered that book for the library. If you can't trust Jane Goodall not to plagiarize, you can't trust anyone not to do so, can you?

[Afton]

I wonder if this 78-year-old is being pushed to publish when she isn't quite up to the rigors of researching? Or, what if assistants did most of the work and her name appears on the book for gravitas? Whatever the reason, it's very sad.

[Leila]

@Jenn: I think I saw something about it being delayed, so at least you won't have to pack it up and send it back like my library did with that Opal Mehta book?

@Afton: Yeah, the whole thing is quite sad.