Raj Persaud Suspended.

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I hear he has been suspended for 3 months. Did he really think he could pass other people's work off as his own? Did the fame just go to his head?

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I used to like him on Richard and Judy. He was really comforting...

I agree thought he was quite good

surprised he's been suspended tbh, not that plagiarism is good, but it's not as if he's harmed any patients by doing so is it?

he's a v nice man

but - the plagiarism brought his profession and therefore his role, into dispute

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Well, he deserves a three month suspension just for the horrible mis-use of the word 'myself' instead of 'me' in his statement. In my pedantic opinion.

His effrontery is quite something, isn't it?

I always liked him but think he might have got a bit carried away with his own self-importance after a while.

But it is fraudulent to pass others work off as your own, and it's not as if he doesn't know that, and one instance he changed just one word so can't even balme a cutting and pasting error. 3 months pretty mild imo.

aparently it said on the news ( havenlt read link soz) that the case came to light because of the church of scientologists who don't believe in phychology

this doesn't negate his wrong doing o corse - just adds a nice litle twist

Agree with bundle, they were right to suspend him, he fucked up massively and to do that he can't be functioning properly and he did bring his profession into disrepute

As anyone in further education would know plagiarism is an absolute no no.As a mere undergraduate or post graduate you can be removed from the university and prevented from studying even if it was for personal experience. he was doing it for financial gain in a published book - he has fame and no doubt at least a modest fortune- is this not just bare greed and arrogance?

lol is that right? 'i'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those pesky scientologists...'

He is also a consultant psychiatrist at Maudsley NHS Trust. So IMO should be concentrating his efforts on clinical practice, not writing coffee-table pop psychology books

it's only three months, he's not been struck off or anything. don't think this is a big deal

He was an arse anyway, plagiarism or not. Never heard him say anything on telly I couldn't have made up or copied thought of myself.

I think it is a big deal for such a high profile and well-respected clinician to be suspended. And he deserves it.

agree with will. He was a Nice Bloke who came out with sensible but not very scientific stuff

there was a lot of talk over who had persisted in complaining about him (a number of times) but i hadn't heard it was scientologists, but other (disgruntled) people

I've never heard anything negative re: Raj's clinical work, I think he's pretty well regarded but this business obv will affect how people (both his peers and patients) think about him

i thought he had about 15 degrees... Judy said so.

i think in other settings (ie not This Morning) he's come out with some pretty scientific stuff (R4, World Service Radio)

Sitting in on a phone-in with Rich n Jude has never been particularly taxing, has it?

On PM they interviewed one of the people he plagiarised and it was brought to his attention by someone from the Sunday Times I think.

He does deserve to be suspended of course.

But he isn't being suspended for anything to do with his clinical practice.