Big mistakes made before the war turn into hundreds and thousands of times bigger mistakes and tragedies during the war.. Senior researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Irina Yegorchenko cannot agree that decommissioned scientific articles, that is, the theft of someone else's intellectual property, have now become trifles that are not worth talking about. She writes about this in an article for ZN. UA "

“Academic plagiarism is a 100% guarantee of problems with dignity, competence, respect for oneself and other people,” the author writes..

According to her, academic plagiarism means that every reasonable person cannot trust the plagiarizer because he publicly lied when he passed off someone else's work as his own.. Yegorchenko noted that during a recent meeting with students, President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted that their unwillingness to turn a blind eye to unworthiness and unvirtue is called immaturity..

“No, adulthood is an honest look at reality. And the reluctance to see serious unpleasant problems that unscrupulous incompetent people create - even if these people seem pleasant - this is just infantilism, ”added Yegorchenko.

The plagiarism of the head of education, which is now Sergey Shkarlet, which means the neglect of the values \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bof dignity, virtue, respect for people, leads to the devaluation of the education system, Yegorchenko explained.

“I really hope that the leaders of the state will join these adults, and, despite the zero priority of science and education in our country, they will still think about the future and draw appropriate personnel conclusions.. And the sooner the better. The further, the worse will be the consequences for the country. You can’t build a temple out of rotten bricks,” the author added..

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Recall that due to plagiarism in the works of the Minister of Education and Science Sergei Shkarlet, scientists of the anti-plagiarism initiative " And ex-head of the Ministry of Education Anna Novosad and ex-deputy minister of education Inna Sovsun expressed confidence that the appointment of Shkarlet is being lobbied by university rectors who are not interested in improving the quality of higher education. Read more in the article "

In turn, the parliamentary faction "

However, at first, the panel of judges of the First Senate of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine refused to open proceedings on the case of appointing Shkarlet as Minister. And then the Constitutional Court also refused to deputies to open a case on the constitutionality of Shkarlet by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine.