It has been a long time since I have heard the name Jane Goodall. I used to hear so much about her but not like I used to. I always remembered her from the monkeys she used to take care of and study. It never occurred to me that she had become and author of a few books. I always admired her work with the monkeys though.
Recently, I have been hearing things about her new book. There have been lots of people talking about her plagiarizing other people's work. I was amazed when I heard this and did not want to believe it. I could not envisage Jane Goodall taking other people's work and using it for her book. She seems like such a sweet person and to think that she would do that is unbeleivable. But, she acts as if she did not know that she did it saying, "It was a well researched book". I believe that she should start over and write a whole new book and get different information.
I don't necessarily think she needs new information for her book because that's how she is trying to make her point in whatever she is saying. She just needs to not make copies of the book she has now and cite her sources and make sure she gives credit to the owners of the words.
ReplyDeleteI think that what you are saying makes sense, but I do not think that that is the solution for the problem. I think that she needs to take responsibility for what she has done and either say that she did not do it or agree with the accusation. If she says that this is true I think that she needs to stop the sale of her book and figure out where she went wrong to them republish the book.
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