Annalena Baerbock is the Chancellor candidate for the Green Party. Back in December/January timeframe, I would have given her a better than 50-percent chance of winning the election in September. Things have changed, and this week....a new problem arose with her, over a book she wrote ("Now. How to Renew Our Land").
Publish date? 21 June 2021.....so it just came out.
An Austrian plagiarism 'hunter' went through the publication and found a number of lines/items, which were not attributed. The book is around 240 pages long, and the suggestion is that a fair number of problems exist.
Why her publisher didn't run the book against a plagiarism software deal? Unknown.....you'd think they would have done that.
Did she write the whole thing herself? Well....the story goes that way, but it wouldn't surprise me five or six folks gave her some material, and they never did the attributing work themselves.
A big deal? The German intellectual crowd makes a big deal out of plagiarism. You can quote others as long as you cite them in some way....beyond that, it's not your personally produced material.
Enough to harm her Chancellor chances? At this point, the Greens are somewhere between 16 and 19 percent in the polls. I would suggest a two to three point drop over the next month, and the SPD/FDP folks probably get those points.
Enough for her to drop out entirely? Maybe, the Greens have a decent number two ready to step in, and it might not be so crazy.
The odd thing to me is that if you were publishing a book in these times....most companies would run a plagiarism software against it. These guys apparently didn't do that. It just seems odd.
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