But is punishment the only way to be “tough on crime”? Aren’t we also human, with a moral sense? And isn’t morality - at least ideally and particularly in a democracy - what the criminal law is fundamentally about? Could not the judge in this case (a Toronto man faces three years in prison after police officers found him in possession of an unauthorized, loaded handgun) have said something like this to the offender: “I’m considering ordering 240 hours of community service, the maximum now permitted, to give you a chance to make amends to your society. No mucking about with understanding crime, wide discretion and balancing values. Yes, one can readily understand why the federal Conservatives, anxious to ensure credible and strong law enforcement, would resort to certain and severe punitive sentencing. Re: Judges Brought Minimum Sentences On Themselves, editorial, March 5. I have no idea how it got misdirected to you guys. Dear sirs, this letter regarding my views on the robocall scandal was actually intended for The Globe and Mail. Re: Tricksters And Robocalls, letters to the editor, March 7. There may be other reasons for wanting to appear to be a scientist when you are not. Most likely, as your article states, this was done by academics for academic reasons. When we complained, we got no response from the publisher, Springer Science and Business Media, which operates in the Netherlands, other than to remove the paper from its website. I was able to identify one of the others as a paper that had been written by scientists from China, as I now recall.

The “author,” a professor at an Iranian university, had cobbled together at least three previously published papers and claimed the research as his own. Large sections of our work had been lifted, word for word, and our data and results had been copied with a couple of insignificant changes in an attempt to camouflage it. Crow and I (I was formerly a defence scientist at Defence Research & Development Canada) had written in 1998 appeared in the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry under another author’s name. In 2004, much of a scientific paper that R. Plagiarism in Iran has been going on for several years. Re: Iranian Researchers Plagiarized Material, March 5. Join the conversation reuters Article content.

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