Plagiarism scandal in academia

Abstract

In Lithuania there were only several science scandals during the whole history of Lithuanian science, i.e. there were only several cases to become public. As elsewher e in the world, academic communities are extremely conservative and hermetic ones and as such they tend to solve their own problems and conflicts internally. Whistleblowers or mavericks are ostracized from it. The most famous science scandal in Lithuania i s related with plagiarism case, which started in 2002 and is still not over. As the scandal has moved beyond the walls of a particular university, it involved governmental and legal institutions, wider academic community. The scandal revealed that there we re no measures, procedures, regulations and even moral judgement to address it.