Continuing to own the author retraction beat (thankfully without broad value judgments about the entire industry), the AP reports an admission from Gerald Posner that his fall 2009 book MIAMI BABYLON includes passages that come from Frank Owen’s CLUBLAND. Posner blamed faulty research methodology, and concedes “if you use something from another book, a statement from another book, it needs to be in quotations, or if you take something and put it in your own syntax and grammar, you still need to cite it.” He adds, “without going through every line I can’t be 100 percent sure, but I think […]
