Well, the issue of plagiarism has been as issue to Senator Tito Sotto's anti-RH speech that was copied from Sarah's blog, a US blogger. He denied copying it to "The Healthy Home Economist", insisting that both of them took it from the same source, Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride. Oh well, whatever his lame excuses are, it just shows how ignorant he is about plagiarism and blogging and most of all he hired incompetent staffs who doesn't know how to prepare an original speech for him.
This issue has come to Sarah's attention already and she made a blog post about it, http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/on-plagiarism-the-pill-and-presumptuousness/. Sarah commented on his own post pertaining to the Senator "My blog was quoted, not Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride, I put her works in my own words and you copied my words".
Sotto's speech
1 According, to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, use of other drugs such as the Pill also cause severe gut dybiosis. What’s worse, drug induced gut imbalance is especially intractable and resistant to treatment either with probiotics or diet change.
2 gut imbalance brought on through use of The Pill negatively impacts the ability to digest food and absorb nutrients. As a result, even if a women eats spectacularly well during pregnancy, if she has been taking oral contraceptives for a period of time beforehand, it is highly likely that she and her baby are not reaping the full benefits of all this healthy food as the lack of beneficial flora in her gut preclude this from occurring.
3 Pathogenic, opportunistic flora that take hold in the gut when The Pill is used constantly produce toxic substances which are the by-products of their metabolism. These toxins leak into the woman’s bloodstream and guess what, they have the potential to cross the placenta! Therefore, gut dysbiosis exposes the fetus to toxins
4 Not well known is the fact that use of The Pill depletes zinc in the body. Zinc is called “the intelligence mineral” as it is intimately involved in mental development. see original post -http://filipinofreethinkers.org/2012/08/15/sottos-reckless-method-of-legislation-is-inexcusable/
photo credit: PEBA
August 16, 2012 at 4:00 PM
i went to the link you shared on sarah's response and I see where she is coming from. usually, scientific paper is harder to understand with more scientific terms, when we share them, we put them into our words, just like what sarah explained. if they (tito sotto and srah) may have taken the information from the same source, it is hard to imagine having the same rewording to make it clearer for general public to understand. what is even harder is what sotto said, " blogger lang sya"- somehow, i am a blogger too, and i feel offended with the way he puts down bloggers. we are professionals too.
August 16, 2012 at 10:55 PM
tsk, tsk to tito sen. Very disappointing.
August 17, 2012 at 12:03 AM
And I hope he didn't really said those lines: 'Bakit ko naman iqu-quote ang blogger, blogger lang iyon'!
If he really did say it, that is outrageous and has no respect towards bloggers, famous or not!
August 17, 2012 at 2:44 PM
The moment he said those very words blogosphere is shaken - most are disappointed while others look at the positive side of things. Well at least bloggers are becoming an "in" thing right now that everybody should love and respect.I hope everybody learned from our senator's mistake.
August 17, 2012 at 6:14 PM
I don't have anything nice to say about Tito Sotto. What he said is demoralizing to us bloggers. Obviously, he doesn't know what he's talking about, or who he's up against. This kind of ignorance is simply unacceptable.
August 17, 2012 at 8:58 PM
he wasn't man enough to accept mistakes, wait what else did he do in the senate
August 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM
kaloko naman kasi mommy Tess ung ginawa. todo deny pa sila, pero ang ginawa nila ay plagiarism. kahit baligtarin nila ang mundo, pangongopya ang ginawa nila.
August 18, 2012 at 12:09 PM
wow ha!! nakakalerkei si tito sotto. whew.
August 19, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Talk about sacrificing credibility just to impress an audience. The senator's writer is a lawyer and he does not have the idea of the thing called "para-phrasing" or perhaps summary?
September 20, 2012 at 12:05 PM
tsk tsk tsk... kakahiya nman... grave ang daming kinopya ni tito sotto..hahaha kakahiya ka sen..!!
September 27, 2012 at 10:49 PM
Stop pretending and move on,