Scientific sleuthing: who should pay the plagiarism hunters? – Times Higher Education (Ben Upton | September 2023)
Research engineering sleuths play an incredibly important role in protecting the scientific record. They do some on a voluntary basis, in the face of legal threats, attacks by trolls and death threats. This Times Higher Education piece asks a pressing question. Shouldn’t we have their back and support them, at least financially? Sleuths shouldn’t need to conduct crowd funding campaigns to cover their legal fees.