Warp Speed Plagiarism: Alwyn Cosgrove Plagiarizes Ultimate Diet 2.0
10 Jul 2008I just read this over at Lyle McDonald’s blog.
Apparently Warp Speed Fat Loss, a new-ish product by Alwyn Cosgrove and Mike Roussell, shall we say liberally borrows from Lyle’s 2003 book The Ultimate Diet 2.0. By “liberally borrows from”, I mean “copied nearly word for word”.
Read the full story on Lyle’s blog
I’m not gonna comment any further, cause Lyle sums up most of it, but wow. That’s all I can say.
And yet, I’m sure there will be plenty of people writing this off or “giving them the benefit of the doubt” even now. Why? Because they’re big names?
How far does it have to go before you (meaning we) have enough of blatant, outright theft? This is the equivalent of a 4th grader stealing another kid’s book report, and it has about the same quality.
Yet we gladly support these people, give them money, and hold them in high regard. That speaks volumes, to me.
Thanks lyle for raising attention to the treatment of your works. unfortunatley, the treatment of my works has received a level of copying that says a lot about the state of the industry
kyles have a few page copied. i have identifed over 40 publications that contain verbatim, paraphrasing or coped concepts, over a 10 year period, literally hundreds of pages
http://www.kingsports.net/industryintegritytest.h…
over and above the abuse of the intellectual protection laws and the damages to the original authors, this behaviour shocks the readers, as it seems uncomfortable for them to aknowledge that they have been accepting lies and bullshit for so long, and paying for it
i look forward to a world, a society, an industry with greater respect and integrity
ian king
I don't know what's worse. The fact that he copied someone else's words but couldn't even disguise it or that cheesy sounding title. Warp Speed? Really?