So there I am, blogging along with 500 million of my closest friends, when I came upon Blogcritics, a highly respected “sinister cabal of superior writers”, and I applied to be a writer – and they said come on in.
So I write whenever and whatever suits my fancy – culture, business, sports, things like that. I also have taken an interest in health care, especially in the areas of fraudulent and adulterated pharmaceuticals and the federal, state, and local governments’ complicity in allowing tainted drugs into your pharmacy and mine.
My four part series How Good Are Your Drugs? on Blogcritics takes the reader through this step by step.
Then I wrote Making Hay While the Sun Shines - How the Power of Influence Influences Power, an article that was vetted and then published on July 3, 2007. The article explains that, although Senator Evan Bayh (D-Ind) does not profit from relationships in his role as senator, his wife Susan Bayh is sure mopping up sitting on boards of some of the largest health care insurers and pharmaceutical companies in the world.
In fact, it has been reported that almost two thirds of the senator’s wealth come from holdings and investments in the health care or pharmaceutical industries. And, from time to time, there is a fuzzy line between Senator Bayh’s public responsibilities and Mrs. Bayh’s financial interests.
Ten days after this article, the following article was published on The Fort Wayne Blog by Greg McClain: "Evan Bayh and his connection to the health care industry should be questioned by his peers and by the uninsured American public.”
I was excited to see that someone else had picked up on this very important story, and as I scrolled down, I realized that although the words (read “key words” ) had been changed up and rearranged, Mr. McClain had taken my story and claimed it as his own.
Article comments
1 - duane
Wow. That's pley-juh-riz-uhm alright. I don't see how some people can sleep at night.
2 - Brad Schader
This may be a blog, but there are copywrites (copyrights?) applied. Blogcritics goes it automatically as do most blogger sites. You may have a case with this.
3 - Vikk Simmons
Plagerism has always been a problem but with today's global internet publishing it's rampant. It doesn't help that so many appear to be growing up with the attitude that everything is fair game rather than fair use. Good luck.