Iris Publishers- Open Access Journal of Forensic Science & Medicine | Please Patiently Pick Per Person-Pedadogue, Pretender, Plagiartist, Pilferer

Authored by Seun Ayoade

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle pepper. A peck of pickle pepper Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle pepper, where’s the peck of pickle pepper Peter Piper picked?
As childish as this tongue twister sounds, it asks a profound question-shouldn’t anyone who claims to have done or discovered something be able to provide indisputable evidence? Today when we hear, think or talk of scientific theories or inventions specific names come to mind. Almost like a Pavlovian response we think Darwin when we think evolution, Einstein when we think relativity, Newton when we remember gravity and Zuckerberg when we talk of Facebook. But how many of these individuals actually borrowed and built upon the work of other forgotten or hidden figures? How many of these great names even descended so low as to plagiarize and outright steal the work of others? I myself am a victim of plagiarism. “Cellular Dust” [1] the term I coined to describe the microzymas was hijacked by some unscrupulous elements [2] and used to describe vesicles barely a year later! [3]. Assuming we were doing some short test in some twilight zone and were given the following questions
1. The famous formula e=mc2 was discovered by
i. Olinto De Pretto in 1903
ii. Albert Einstein in 1905
2. The principles and experiments that formed the basis of the food preservation technique known as pasteurization were first enunciated and performed by
i. Pierre Bechamp
ii. Louis Pasteur
3. Facebook was created by
i. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss
ii. Mark Zuckerberg
4. Calculus (integration and differentiation) was invented by
i. Gottfried Leibniz
ii. Isaac Newton
5. The equation for gravitation was discovered by
i. Robert Hooke
ii. Isaac Newton

Did you pick the ‘A’s or the ‘B’s in the preceding test? Most people would probably pick the ‘B’s, but the evidence for picking the ‘A’s is stronger than you think! It is on record that Albert Einstein spoke and wrote Italian, the language in which Olinto De Pretto published the 62 page paper entitled “Ipotesi dell’Etere nella Vita dell’Universo” [Hypothesis of Aether In The Life Of The Universe] in the Atti del reale Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Volume LXIII [Proceedings of The Royal Veneto Institute of Science, Letters and Arts]. The paper was endorsed by the well-known astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. It is theoretically possible that Albert Einstein read Olinto De Pretto’s paper and plagiarized it! [4] Olinto De Pretto was shot to death not long after, so Einstein could easily have gotten away with it.

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