Indian Scientist Dr G. Venkataraman Accused of Plagiarism
Posted by Barry Pittard on May 15, 2010
Robert Priddy, former long-time head of the Norwegian Sathya Sai Organization and retired academic in philosophy and social sciences at the University of Oslo, has accused one of Sathya Sai Baba’s top aides of serious plagiarism. The official is Dr G. Venkataraman, Sathya Sai Baba’ deputy chairman of the international Sathya Sai Organization and head of its progagandist radio network, Sai Global Harmony. Venakataraman was formerly part of India’s nuclear science establishment, was Sathya Sai Baba’s former close aide, Dr S. Bhagavantham.
(Dr G.Venkataraman, left).
In his article, Venkataraman – the most gullible physicist alive? Robert Priddy (see Wikipedia entry) notes:
“Dr. G. Venkataraman reviews at length developments in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos… though nothing scientific that is not found in hundreds of books and other media. Venkataraman was a physicist working for the Indian government’s nuclear programme. However, he has copied his information on astronomy from other scientific authorities. Yet he does not once attribute anything he reports to its originators or to other scientific sources! He has even plagiarised text from the Dennis Dutton website, without any mention …
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Outright plagiarism: Both text and an image ‘lifted’ from denisdutton.com/einstein_eddington.htm by Prof. G. Venkataraman, who also took the following images, all without acknowledgement:- ‘The Big Bang’ image from science.hq.nasa.gov/universe/science/bang.html ‘An Expanding Universe’ from http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-SNAP-dark-energy.html ‘The Chandra Telescope’ images come from starbulletin.com/2000/01/14/news/story1.html and from http://whyfiles.org/223orbital_astro/images/chandradiag.jpg The images of white dwarfs are falsely sub-titled “www.radio sai” but they are taken from http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/science/hubble_m4wd.jpg He uses copyright images from the Anglo-Australian Observatory at http://astro.ic.ac.uk/Research/Stellar/images/aat050.jpg |
… This failure to cite any references in articles on science or academic subjects is regarded as dilettantism by scientists and scholars. The innocent and uneducated may well believe that Venkataraman discovered such things himself, when he is simply promoting himself as if he were an authoritative researcher. This marks him out as bogus. In addition to this absence of basic scholarly standards, he has a pretentious main agenda. He presumes to inform us of 1) The Cosmic origin of man. 2) Man’s Cosmic connections. 3) Man’s Cosmic responsibilities, and 4) Man’s Cosmic Destiny, no less!
These (contra-feminist) titles alone reveal that he is setting himself up as some kind of ‘spiritual mouthpiece’, misusing science as a mere tool in an attempt to inculcate religious belief – preferably faith in his Lord and Master, Sathya Sai Baba, as the Incarnation of God Almighty in this Age.”
Sathya Sai Baba felicitates deputy, Dr Gramme Venkataraman, with automobile
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