Talk:G. Harry Stine

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GHS's dismissal from Analog[edit]

I hope someone has a link to a reliable report but G. Harry Stine was dismissed from his column at Analog late in his career, IIRC for plagiarism. That incident hardly defines his life or career but someone coming to this article knowing that fact (as I did) would expect it to be addressed. It's mentioned at least here and here. --71.174.161.183 (talk) 00:04, 14 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Shortly before his death in 1997 Stine was accused of lifting a bunch of engineering jokes from a Scott Adams book (The Dilbert Principle, 1996) to use in his column called "Engineers Exposed!" (ANALOG, Feb. 1997). The argument made in defense of Stine is that these were all old engineering humor that everyone knew and that Scott Adams probably first saw them in the same sources Stine did. The matter was allowed to drop when Stine suddenly died later that year. I've seen the Stine column and it does read like Scott Adams, but it also reads exactly like office humor you would have seen pinned on the bulletin board at your engineering job 20 years earlier. I had a look at the Scott Adams book, and once I flipped to the chapter about engineers I didn't have any trouble spotting some bits that are nearly identical to passages in Stine's column, e.g "Lies Engineers Tell", also the bit about the age when female engineers are most attractive. I'm not going to take the time to put them side by side and go through with a highlighter marking up the similarities, so I won't try to say whether it was just two or three old jokes that they mined from the same sources, or a clearcut case of outright plagiarism. 162.83.220.215 (talk) 17:18, 14 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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