The curious case of Sahoo

 India, just like any other country is struggling with the rising case of plagiarism. One of the factors for the rapid rise in cases of plagiarism is the thin or lack of understanding about plagiarism itself. Generally, we as average readers misinterprets plagiarism as merely a work of inspiration and confine ourselves to this utopian belief. Also, we aren't aware of the legal repercussions that are bound to happen when found guilty of plagiarism. But when highly educated professionals make the same mistake as us, an average reader, then that becomes a matter of concern. One such case is that of Dr Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo. S.K.Sahoo is a scientist in the field of nanotechnology at the institute of life sciences, an autonomous institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Bhubaneshwar, Govt of India. There have been serious concerns related to the accuracy of the data presented in many articles published by him, five research articles published by Dr S.K. Sahoo has been retracted following highly unethical practices such as serial self-plagiarism, data manipulation, and falsification of results as per notice published in the June 2003 issue of the journal Acta Biomaterialia.

From the above case, we can make a rough idea about how bleak understanding we possess of plagiarism. In my humble opinion had MR. Sahoo  taken into account the plagiarism factor he would have been saved from the embarrassment. 

Currently, Dr. Sahoo is contributing to developing a curcumin sponge bandage to heal wounds as a scientist at the Bhubaneswar-based Institute of Life Sciences.

Reference : Scientist at Bhubaneswar-based ILS invents turmeric bandage to heal wounds- The New Indian Express

Retraction notice to "Enhanced cellular uptake and in vivo pharmacokinetics of rapamycin loaded cubic phase nanoparticles for cancer therapy" [Acta BioMaterialia 7 (2011) 3656–3669] - PubMed (nih.gov)