# Son of Dex ripped off?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 18, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-dex-ripped-off/50610 "2001-01-18T01:49:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-dex-ripped-off/50610/21 "2001-01-27T20:06:36Z")

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[The online retraction](http://home.flash.net/~paisano/opin.html#4)

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2001, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/son-of-dex-ripped-off/50610/22 "2001-01-27T21:09:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Recently Digested \*  
> First things first: from the looks of it, Scott won’t be writing for The Plager-isano anymore.

Getting the plagerizer canned was good work. The insulting twist on the paper’s title is not. After all, the San Jose Mercury had two relatively recent events in which reporters plagerized or just made stuff up. The Merc, as the Paisano did, took action when the event was brought to their attention.

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