to the resignation of Chancellor Boulevard
verquerte Guttenberg's resignation speech one more time with misjudgements transfiguration and in any case, both late and inadequate admissions. To expect more would the state attorney's job easy to make and need not be.
is important to the intermediate result that has prevailed with the resignation of the Minister of academic self-esteem against the spirit Boulevard in policy, embodied in Guttenberg, but also in Merkel, Horst Seehofer, and the general power of the poker parties. And that the academic self-esteem prevailed even against the tabloid spirit of the BILD-Zeitung, of which more qualitative journalism averted a slow and had succumbed for too long the temptation to establish the whole of society a "shining light", a "conservative Obama.
This project has failed. And thoroughly than it deserved Gabriel Roth & Co., but not nearly as disastrous as it would have earned FAZ, SPIEGEL, FOCUS and others, they may now do so still as if Guttenberg only a man of the BILD newspaper was.
The academic self-esteem has become established, the next step will be that the right ear of a discourse other format can take in the science and democracy, less damage, possibly the justice, and it becomes the most likely course . come A fine - and then more is needed in addition to the self-inflicted loss of honor is actually not.
remains however damage more general nature, because the affair afforded public insight into ancient Malfunction of the institutionalized academic life that must be remedied, at least in rudimentary form, because the fact of cliques in all disciplines, the rope does not allow hats in full, as was not the effects (party) political horse-trading (proportional representation) in the social sciences , so the grade, graduation and professional practice. Especially for permission is also much, but more transparency would curb the abuse.
by example, enhanced disclosure requirements, as is now easy with the Internet - and cheap = democratic - would be possible for whoever comes up to the public with academic titles, so too should it public must substantiate. And the Guttenberg each case shows that next to the supervisor and those names should be mentioned that a work with which note and gave the blessing.
could Even with these are small time significantly more responsibility in favor of the academic and socio-political objectivity.
Mark Rabago>> discussion
ps: Because belongs where credit is due, is the democratic Internet public to call, especially http://de.guttenplag.wikia.com , because without this commitment would be the ivory tower of science may not be the lighthouse become.
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