MANILA, Philippines - About 37 members of the academia and
certified bloggers filed a plagiarism complaint against Senator Vicente
Sotto (right photo) at the Senate committee on ethics and privileges. However Sotto
has refused to acknowledge his mistake, adding he would not apologise to
writers he had wronged, a TV report said.
Sotto should be cited guilty
of improper conduct and be given disciplinary action for allegedly
plagiarising the works of a late American senator and three other
bloggers when he made speeches at the Senate to criticise the proposed
passage of a controversial health bill that would allow government’s
subsidy for the family planning programme for the poor, the group,
composed of scholars, bloggers and members of Filipino Freethinkers Inc,
said.
“We trust our senators to
know plagiarism when they see plagiarism,” Lisandro Claudio, assistant
professor of political science at suburban Quezon City’s Ateneo de
Manila University, also told ABS CBN.
Sotto, in his speeches and during interpellations of the Reproductive
Health Bill did not “"provide citation information or indicate in any
way that this material was written by others", according to a collective
complaint penned by bloggers Sarah Pope, Janice Formichella, and Peter
Engelman.
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