{"id":55023,"date":"2017-09-12T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/nu-har-koebenhavns-universitet-taget-doktorgraden-fra-milena-penkowa\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:42:16","slug":"university-of-copenhagen-now-revokes-milena-penkowas-doctorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/university-of-copenhagen-now-revokes-milena-penkowas-doctorate\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Copenhagen now revokes Milena Penkowa\u2019s doctorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milena Penkowa can no longer call herself a <secret text=\"The Danish degree dr.med. is a so-called higher doctorate ranking above a PhD, it is equivalent to the English degree Med.Sc.D.\">Doctor<\/secret> of Medicine from the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the Academic Council at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen has now decided one year after a national <secret text=\"The Eastern High Court.\">court<\/secret> ruled that Penkowa had <secret text=\"Even though the court found that Penkowa had forged documents, the judges chose not to rule it as 'gross document forgery'. This meant that she was acquitted due to the statute on limitations. Milena Penkowa has previously received a three month suspended sentence for document forgery, embezzlement and falsely accusing a student for it in 2010.\">forged documents<\/secret> on alleged animal trials when she made the first edition of her doctoral dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>The UCPH argument for depriving Milena Penkowa of the highest Danish academic degree is that if the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences had known what Penkowa had done, the university would have refused to process her second doctoral dissertation from which Milena Penkowa received her doctorate degree. This is according to the university&#8217;s brief <a href=\"http:\/\/nyheder.ku.dk\/alle_nyheder\/2017\/09\/koebenhavns-universitet-traekker-medicinsk-doktorgrad-tilbage\/\">press release<\/a> on the decision.<\/p>\n<p>It is very rare that a scientist loses an acquired doctor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<h3>Arrogance of power<\/h3>\n<p>Milena Penkowa has commented on losing her doctorate on a Facebook post. Here she says the UCPH behaviour amounts to <em>harassment<\/em>. She also writes that the university lacks the legal evidence needed to take away her doctor title:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAs you know, the University of Copenhagen has had me on the top of its hate list since 2010, and the university&#8217;s public-funded treasury is apparently infinite in light of what they want to spend on harassing me,\u00ab writes Penkowa. She continues:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThis hatred has not diminished over the years \u2013 in fact quite the opposite ever since they suffered defeat in the Eastern High Court last year. The latest is that the university has now decided to revoke one of my doctoral degrees &#8211; despite the fact that the law clearly indicates that they are not in the right.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Milena Penkowa also announces on Facebook that she wants to bring her old university to court:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe university nevertheless chooses to conduct this vindictive action \u2013 at whatever cost. This means that we will fight it in the courts again \u2013 as I will not want accept the arrogance of power or the abuse of power \u2013 as this is what it is.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>The case may turn out to be less than simple from a legal viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Penkowa&#8217;s first doctoral dissertation was rejected in 2002 because a panel of scientific referees (rightly) doubted the validity of many hundreds of rat experiments, that she claimed to have made. A second panel overturned this decision, and Penkowa was allowed to re-submit her thesis. She chose, however, to submit a different thesis that did not contain the article on the many rat experiments, earning her (in 2006) the doctorate degree which has now been revoked.<\/p>\n<p>The UCPH decision comes just two weeks after the Danish Patient Safety Authority imposed a <a href=\"http:\/\/dagensmedicin.dk\/styrelse-giver-milena-penkowa-forbud-arbejde\/\">work ban <\/a>on Milena Penkowa.<\/p>\n<p>University management had no comment Tuesday on the possibility of having to meet Milena Penkowa in court.<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academic Council of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has deprived neuroscientist Milena Penkowa of her doctorate in medicine. 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Milena Penkowa has previously received a three month suspended sentence for document forgery, embezzlement and falsely accusing a student for it in 2010.\">forged documents<\/secret> on alleged animal trials when she made the first edition of her doctoral dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>The UCPH argument for depriving Milena Penkowa of the highest Danish academic degree is that if the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences had known what Penkowa had done, the university would have refused to process her second doctoral dissertation from which Milena Penkowa received her doctorate degree. This is according to the university&#8217;s brief <a href=\"http:\/\/nyheder.ku.dk\/alle_nyheder\/2017\/09\/koebenhavns-universitet-traekker-medicinsk-doktorgrad-tilbage\/\">press release<\/a> on the decision.<\/p>\n<p>It is very rare that a scientist loses an acquired doctor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<h3>Arrogance of power<\/h3>\n<p>Milena Penkowa has commented on losing her doctorate on a Facebook post. Here she says the UCPH behaviour amounts to <em>harassment<\/em>. She also writes that the university lacks the legal evidence needed to take away her doctor title:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbAs you know, the University of Copenhagen has had me on the top of its hate list since 2010, and the university&#8217;s public-funded treasury is apparently infinite in light of what they want to spend on harassing me,\u00ab writes Penkowa. She continues:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThis hatred has not diminished over the years \u2013 in fact quite the opposite ever since they suffered defeat in the Eastern High Court last year. The latest is that the university has now decided to revoke one of my doctoral degrees &#8211; despite the fact that the law clearly indicates that they are not in the right.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>Milena Penkowa also announces on Facebook that she wants to bring her old university to court:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe university nevertheless chooses to conduct this vindictive action \u2013 at whatever cost. This means that we will fight it in the courts again \u2013 as I will not want accept the arrogance of power or the abuse of power \u2013 as this is what it is.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>The case may turn out to be less than simple from a legal viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Penkowa&#8217;s first doctoral dissertation was rejected in 2002 because a panel of scientific referees (rightly) doubted the validity of many hundreds of rat experiments, that she claimed to have made. A second panel overturned this decision, and Penkowa was allowed to re-submit her thesis. She chose, however, to submit a different thesis that did not contain the article on the many rat experiments, earning her (in 2006) the doctorate degree which has now been revoked.<\/p>\n<p>The UCPH decision comes just two weeks after the Danish Patient Safety Authority imposed a <a href=\"http:\/\/dagensmedicin.dk\/styrelse-giver-milena-penkowa-forbud-arbejde\/\">work ban <\/a>on Milena Penkowa.<\/p>\n<p>University management had no comment Tuesday on the possibility of having to meet Milena Penkowa in court.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Banner","img":false,"url":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}],"expression":{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11489,"filter":"raw"},"enable_comments":true,"align_content":"alignleft","feature_color":""},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":46,"name":"Science","slug":"science","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":831,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":784,"name":"Milena Penkowa","slug":"milena-penkowa-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":784,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":785,"name":"Uredelighed","slug":"uredelighed-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":785,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":786,"name":"Videnskabelig snyd","slug":"videnskabelig-snyd-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":786,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11489,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/milena30.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55278,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55023\/revisions\/55278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}