By Raïssa Robles
Minutes ago. Senator Vicente Sotto III denied to ABS-CBNNews anchor Karen Davila that he had plagiarized parts of Sarah’s blog, the healthyeconomist.com.
Sotto denied the charge this way:
Pareho kaming pinagkunan. I’m quoting Natasha Campbell McBride. Why should I quote a blogger?
The problem with that answer is this.
Alfredo Melgar on the blog Filipino Freethinkers found that Sotto stated in his speech:
“According, to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, the use of the pill also causes severe gut dysbiosis. What is worse, drug induced gut imbalance is especially intractable and resistant to treatment either with probiotics or diet change.”
Melgar noted that the same paragraph had appeared in Sarah’s blog:
“According, to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, use of other drugs such as the Pill also cause severe gut dybiosis. What’s worse, drug induced gut imbalance is especially intractable and resistant to treatment either with probiotics or diet change.”
Except for the addition of the word “the” and the spelling out of the contraction “what’s” in Sarah’s blog, Senator Sotto’s words are an exact duplicate of Sarah’s paragraph.
Senator Sotto and I are both English majors so he understands what I’m talking about.
If Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride was being directly quoted by Sotto, surely the doctor would not have written a paragraph that starts with the following words – According, to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD…
Anyway you look at it, Sotto’s paragraph is a copy of Sarah’s paragraph.
I would like to invite readers to counter-check further his second speech as well as his other quotations that are similar to those on Sarah’s blog. Were these quoted from the blog or from Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride? Or did Sen. Sotto and Sarah quote from yet another source?
If more evidence turns up, perhaps citizens could file a formal complaint before the Senate Ethics Committee.
Sotto is after all a senior Senate official. He is the Senate Majority floor leader who has a big say on which bills reach the Senate floor.
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Clearly, the senator doesn’t understand what plagiarism means. I am not surprised by his response to Karen.
All this can be explained by this verse:
Iskwelang kwela ‘to dito’y enjoyable
konting aral lang konting bulakbol
dito nang lahat, madaldal at bulol
dito na nga, Iskul Bukol
And his statement “Why should I quote a blogger?” smacks of ignorance. Tito Escalera from Wanbol University would have been proud.
@andrew lim
Ha ha ha,
“konting aral, konting bulakbol, madaldal at bulol,
dala sa senado aral nya sa Wanbol;
dissertation thesis na “turno en contra”
sa Wanbol din galing research staff nya”
richie d horsie and jimmy santos phd researchers ni sotto sa wanbol U.
Yes.
…And he is not immune when he lied on national TV.
If he is an English major, he cannot say that he doesn’t understand the concept of plagiarism.
More gems from the comedian in his interview:
The RH Bill will restrict choices.
“Pinapasok natin ang RH Bill sa simbahan.”
A mayor has the right to pull out artificial contraception from the local health center, otherwise we are restricting the freedom of choice of the MAYOR.
I have such a headache having listened to all that.
Jog for a while.
Speaking of jogging…I’d like to throttle a certain legislator. In the hopes of getting some working neurons.
That’s me, the optimist.
He better not copy the “Microsoft” line of del Castillo…
Hmm, maybe he can also get away with it…
He’s a “copy-cat” anyway.
Nagpapalusot pa itong si Sotto. Ang ganitong senador dapat hindi na hinahalal. Nakakahiya.
I gotta hand it to Sotto…
I’m back to “blogging” because of his lies…
I can imagine the good senator saying: “Oh sh*t! That went out really wrong!”…the way he answered Karen’s 1 Million Peso question. Malamang guest host na naman mamaya yan sa Eat Bulaga to make bawi and explain to death his ignoramus blunders…LOL!
oops, bold text emphasis mine.
erratum
my error. i assumed ‘Sarah’ is Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride. not found a link or material to that effect. apologies
Raissa,
If they were just quoting from the same source, then it highly unlikely you would commit the same error in using punctuation marks:
You do not put a comma after the word “According” in the opening sentence “According to…”
Pati mali sa punctuation marks, kinopya! Aha hayyyy…
Yeah iskul bukol….
The giveaway that one has just plagiarized: even the mistakes are copied unthinkingly.
But did we really expect more from the senator?
In fairness, Sotto corrected Sarah by correcting the spelling of “dysbiosis”.
On google…
“Dybiosis” by Sarah
nag-spell check pero di nag-grammar check?
:)
Kaya maraming CPMers “dys-mayado”
at maraming Pilipino “dys- kumpiyado”
sa pagsasabi ng totoo ni Tito Sotto
oo nga, napansin ko nga yun. kinopya nga lang kasi kung kaya pati yung comma ay nakopya.
I suggest that people check out the background of this Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride that he quotes. When you do a search on Google, one of the suggested search term is “Dr Natasha Campbell McBride quack.” If you read more about her, you realize she is a Russian doctor who is considered a “quack doctor.”
When I was working in a hospital filled with International Doctors we talked about which was the Best Medical School in the world. I dunno the truth, they say it was in Egypt. And then they talked about flanking several times to get their medical licenses, A Palestinian doctor has told me, “You go to Russia and bribe the school and the Licensure Commision and you become a Doctor. Everyone who is a flanker and has got the money goes to Russia
flunker.
Yes, here’s some of her quackery: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/08/01/gaps-in-a-doctors-reasoning-about-vaccines/
it was also reported in GMANews7….sino kaya ang writer nya (tito sotto)?….
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/269929/news/nation/sotto-s-anti-rh-speech-copied-from-us-blogger-who-writes-about-recipes?ref=topstories
This is the twitter address of Sen. Sotto’s staff: twitter.com/ezjaypee
She’s been trolling pro RH people and resorting to cheap shots. (I’ve been a victim)
I’m sure she’s the one in charge of research and drafting his speech. She is the real plagiarizer. The copy-paste girl.
If I were Sotto, I’d fire her ass.
no, she is doing us a lot of favor. she should stay with her comic master…
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Good job, alana! That was certainly plagiarism at its best.
Raymond Pearl was born in 1879 and died in1940. Go figure.
Kaya naman pala galing sa mga bloggers yung sinabi ni Sotto kasalanan nung office messenger niya.
Binigyan siya ng memo ni Tito na dalhin sa “ghostwriter” na igawa siya ng speech
Nakalimutan ng messenger yung “ghost” at naalala yung “scriptwriter” dahil artista si Tito. Pumunta siya kay Joey De Leon at sinabi gawan ng speech si Tito. Kasalukuyan nagblo-blog si Joey kaya lahat ng sinulat kinopya sa mga bloggers.
Buhay Artista:
sabi nga ng yumaong Pidol, kaya ayoko sa pulitika, eh kung manalo!
ang researcher niya ay sina Richie d Horsie at Jimmy Santos sa WanBol U. kaya ayon SABIT..
Johnny, ikaw ata nag-utos ki LINvincible na lumipat sa Rockets e! AMININ!;)
what do you expect from tito sotto? he’s a comedian,he is in the senate to entertain us.give him a break…. LOL
not with that f’n salary and kick backs. that sh*t is NOT funny.
cellm8te You may have been right. I have been very disgustingly entertained by many of his speeches that concerns abortion, pills (RH bill)
Unfortunately, the joke is on us, the Filipinos and its not very funny
If you found out some error to Tito’s speech, make some kind of a leeway, after all he was a comedian before and will always be , expect Tito will say JOKE ONLY… hehehehhe
Sagutin nga niya kung sino si Alfredo Tengko(?) drug lord na di daw niya kilala pero pakawala at alaga ng security aide niya. At bakit PEPSI Paloma ang favorito niyang soft drink. hehehe
@jrivera99
Kapiraso lang ang alam ko kay Pepsi, hindi ko matandaan ang anyo niya. Nababasa ko rin at naririnig ang pangalan niya at Sarsi Emmanuel noong araw, pero hindi ko sila napanood sa sine.
Some 6 months ago, may nabasa ako sa ibang blog site na may patama kay Tito, dahil curious ako, nag google ako. So, na satisfy ang pagka tsismoso ko.
Sotto may be able to live with his lies and twisted analogies but I don’t know why us, the voting and tax-paying public, will have to be subjected to the same. He was clearly caught with his tail in his mouth but he does not have the fortitude to admit he goofed. People like these are why public servants and politicians are so despised and untrusted.
.
‘Iskul Bukol’ type of plagiarism..
:-)
He could have passed one of the latest UPCAT essay questions that goes: “Tell a Lie and make it Believable” – or something like that.
The question went – “Tell a lie about yourself and prove it” pala, as per my nephew here. :-)
Impeachment case sa Senado ni Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo for plagiarism, ang roll call ng mga senators will include:
SEN. VICENTE “SARAH” SOTTO III
so too Sarah plagiarized?
Sotto gave Senate a bad name ! He should step down for ethics sake. I can imagine how his entire family feels. Does he still have the guts to face the public ?
I think we know the answer to that, Nonoy. It’s an unabashedly proud yes on his part.
Nonoy, do not underestimate politicians. Most of them are from a special breed — called
KAPALMIUKS. Faces thicker than an elephant’s hide!! Impervious and immune to shame!
has anybody noticed how, in his nonsensical claims of conspiracies Sotto sounds like that recent visitor of ours, Jeremiah? That’s why I called that visitor a troll. It’s the same story he and his ilk peddle to every forum they go — ridiculous claims with no proof, spurious logic, the same so-called “documents” that don’t stand up to scrutiny. I’ve been seeing these trolls for more than two years now — in fact you could say Sotto himself is nothing but a troll, or as I put it, a Katolitroll.
Or
Torno en Contra
Part 1 & 2
By Uncon-Troll
Exactly. Also, torno en contra becomes porma en copya
Tito Sotto wants to delete the most essential part (the substance) of this Bill…the Section 3 Letter I. This particular portion is conscientiously and consciously intended for the less fortunate sectors of our society, mabuti siya, bilyonaryo, they can afford the sevices of the best hospitals in the world.
“The government shall ensure that all women needing care for post abortion complications shall be treated and counseled in a humane, nonjudgmental and compassionate manner.”
Abangan nating lahat ang kay Sen. JP Enrile.
Hindi siya pabor sa RH Bill 2422 (lahat o ilan[?])
Malalaman natin. Natuto na kaya siya sa pagkakamali ni T Sotto?
Mas pulido kaya ang talumpati niya, kumapara?
Suriin nating lahat at tignan natin kung mas makokotohanan ang panig ni ginoong Sen. JPE.
re ‘kum
apara?’@Mel
The only difference is JPE will not plagiarize.
Salamat @duquemarino, abangan natin.
Meantime, duon sa Congress, filibustering sila.
Sabay ang dalawang panig ng House para sa RH Bill.
Miriam is pro RHBill this time.
How can you forgive an elected public official who is lying about lying about stealing other people’s work and… oh, I lost track!
The grammar side, yeah, it’s trivial compared to the PLAGIARISM issue. Re what you said about non-English speaking peeps in the P.I., not speaking English well is okay if you’ve never studied the language, but not being able to speak English well even after more than 15 years worth of English classes from Prep to College… well, that’s a different matter entirely.
Expatriates working in English speaking 1st world countries come to mind their P’s and Q’s because the most constant job requirement that they need to hurddle is “excellent verbal and written communication skills”. Accent is also another factor, otherwise the interviewer will outrightly eliminate one who has a thick accent and speaks halting English like Mr. Tito Sotto even if he is an English Major from San Beda. So, it’s been internalized as second nature for one in order to be more competitive and in the end, remit more billions to the Philippine coffers.
LOL!
gaya ng paudyok ni Richie ‘d Horsie, ‘haneeep’!.
‘Tito bought Diane pills in 1975 from European black market before being approved for international marketing in Germany…’
saan naman ang link reference mo @Johnny a sa black market ang diane pills for acne?
baka nadayo sa Binondo at nakursunadaan ang paketeng ‘turno en contra’ acne at contra-ceptive growth.
@ Mel
Diane was manufactured by Schering Plough, Germany pharmaceuticals in the seventies. It was originally promoted for acne treatment.
what sotto’s doctor did, was it illegal?
Sotto is lying to his teeth.
Remember Corona, one lie after another could not fly. He started using family and corporation as alibis and covered up with more lies.
Sotto is committing same errors. He started using his family and contraceptives as alibis on his AntiRH stand. Now he is lying on the name of pills his wife took, lying on the source of his speech.
Deja vu
corona, you’d think he is one of kind but he’s not. lol
who’s the wife’s doctor? if still alive, maybe someone should start asking questions to get his contradiction of sotto’s account.
correction: “one of a kind” not “one of kind”
Unfortunately, according to some news reports, the doctor is dead already so we couldn’t verify if Sotto’s statements are accurate or exaggerated (worst is fabricated) just to strengthen his anti-RH stand..
I think they do not make English majors like they used to. That’s why I only majored in mani-pedi and minored in hair-bleaching at Samson Beauty and Fashion School…Yun lang ang kaya ko. Huhuhuhu!
ako nag masters sa Matute Fashion School. haha
I thought he was a senator, not a messenger. If I had known, I would have asked him to deliver some papers from Manila to Dagupan for me.
“Diane-35 is a medicine, manufactured by Schering that, according to BirthControl.com, contains a combination of cyproterone and ethinyl estradiol. Cyproterone is a type of antiandrogen, which means it prevents the effect of many sex hormones. Ethinyl estradiol is an estrogen-like drug that can help prevent pregnancy and help with acne. According to CHealth, Diane 35 is marketed for acne treatment, but BirthControl.com reports that the drug can be used as birth control. In either case, use of the drug may expose patients to various side effects.”
Source: http://www.livestrong.com/article/108291-side-effects-diane-birth-control/
@Essem
Thanks for the elucidation. Maybe you could publish in Philippine newspaper a simple primer on plagiarism because it is so rampant now among Philippine government officials because they get away with it before it becomes an international blackmark for Filipinos, similar to pirated movies.
Are you the renown legal authority on technological copyrights?
if his son was born on 71, his wife must have been taking the pill since 70. and if the pill was manufactured in 74, we can expect it to be marketed sa Pinas a few months or even a year after, on 75.
so that’s approx 5 years.
mang johhny, as in?!! bibili ng pills sa black market? so that was the high dose type of diane pa, but still… how did it exist in the black market when it wasn’t even manufactured until 1978 nga? at that time, malamang it was at the final stages of clinical trials. mas mahigpit kung clinical trials. that means the pills were produced according to how much was needed. paano sya nakakuha nun?
diane-35 was first licensed for use in 1984. and, at that time, only in europe. hmm, perhaps toto sotto invented it in 1975?
WOW! So we not only have a COMEDIAN/SENATOR EH! We got a huge bargain: a COMEDIAN-SENTOAR CUM MEDICINE FORMULATORWHATEVER! HOORAY!!!!
Sentoar Sotto, thanks for Diane-35… Maybe you also invented Diane-Sawyer? Hehehe!
Ang hirap ng nagsisinungaling! Ika nga, however you hide it, TRUTH WILL OUT.
As the Buble Gang people would shout: BOOM!!!
Folks, sorry for my spellings of SENATOR (SENTOAR!)… Hahahaha! The non-English major in me!! Huhuhuhu!!
Pati “Buble Gang” namali… hehehe. Yamo na nga… chewing gum na lang manguya!
That’s a good one complete with details.
Folks, dont take the last paragraph #24 seriously
Ala Tito, Vic & Joey lang
He he he.
But facts on manufacturing dates of Diane/Diane35 are accurate per Google.
Kawawang bayang Pilipinas, hindi lang sa baha, buhay namin ay naaagnas
kundi sa mga opisyales na sa pagkopya at pagnanakaw ay mapangahas
at dahil sa labis na kasinungalingan ay mga nagmumukhang ahas!
AmenHesusSiyaNawa, ang aming bayan po ay Inyong ipag-adya
Para naman kaming mahihirap na Pinoy ay hindi maging kaawa-awa
At patuloy na malumpo’t mabaldado sa kanilang ginagawa!
Hahahaha! Dahil sa tindi ng pagdurusa, ako’y naging makata!
[Bow! Bow! Bow! Wow! Wow! Wow! BAWAWAW!!!
Tila Pinoy Ogden Nash pa ang naging dating ko! Hahahaha!]]
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@coco
Did not read the book you suggested, yet how could contraceptives affect the brain of Sotto when it was Helen who used?
Unless you are suggesting Tito should start drinking them too, LoL!
Tama, my friend
Pano yan, wala na J Lin sa Knicks
I suggest stop using the word “honorable”…not fit. Just say Sotto is okay and enough.
Senator Sotto says: I quoted Natasha Campbell McBride, not Sarah the blogger. The subtext here is that blogs and bloggers are not to be quoted. He forgets that McBride herself is a blogger (see http://www.doctor-natasha.com/blog.php).
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Senator TITO Sotto po, hindi VIC Sotto..:)
Vicente Sotto.
Dami ng tawa ko dito. Oo nga naman Vic Sotto. Kahit pa VIcente Sotto name niya, he’s still knows as TIto Sotto.
‘Di bali, silang dalawa na lang, si Vic pumapel na to defend his Tito brod’s shameful acts! kampihan mag kapatid…
Naku kumampi pa ang kapatid na babaero’t pumapatol sa bata more than half his age. Isa lang ang masasabi ko…Pepsi Paloma.
Sen Sotto was an English MAJOR? Well, he should not have stopped his studies — until he become at least an English COLONEL! Onto being an English GENERAL! ;)
Thats really what the problem is – we, the Filipino have no respect for any kind of intellectual property. We buy fake goods, counterfeit which explains the mushrooming of all these stalls in Virra Mall, Divisoria and peddlers on Ayala ave. Why do you think the movie studios have started to premiere movies in Asia before the the USA? To stop pirates from making a quick buck on bootlegs
Iyong iba bumibili ng fake things to show of! Dito sa Europe mahigpit pag nakitang branded esp sa airport, tanungin ka kung nasaan ang resebo at tingnan nila kung totoo or fake iyan. Kaya gnayan din ang gaw nio Sotto manggaya ,g gawa ng iba para masabing magaling siya, sikat. His speech most come from his heart. di ba kaya nga n,ag-speech siya wala nmang kaalaman at pansarili lang ang ginagawa nakakhiyang senator.
Please naman. Take it easy with our poor Senator. English MAJOR lang siya eh… hindi pa English COLONEL!
Thank you.
You presented me with a puzzle, though. Whose brother are you? :)
Don’t lose hope.
I feel times are changing.
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Bumalik na lang sana si Tito sa “…mula Appari hanggang Jolo….”
ANC just reported that the chief-of-staff of tito sotto wrote to sarah (the blogger) that it was them (the staff) who did the lifting, not the senator. what a lame ‘palusot’!
Now…Sotto will blame his staffers for the plagiarism. Own up to it, Tito. Be a man! Apologize already! You effed up, big time! And please spare the country of any more melodramas. Geez! You uttered the words, they’re on you!
Headline news:
“Pope orders Sotto to give women a choice”
Yikes, what an embarrassment for the Philippine Senate as an institution. How can you stand up in front of your peers and read off a paper whose sources you haven’t reviewed personally?
Sotto the plagiarist meme: <http://qkme.me/3qih10
Pls see – http://raissarobles.com/2012/08/17/update-senator-sotto-lifted-from-5-bloggers-and-1-briefing-paper/
Thanks for the meme.
Kaya hindi nila pinaglalandakan dahil lalabas ang katangahan ni Helen at Tito.
Ngayun lumabas na, binastos ni Tito ang asawa sa buong mundo. Ibig sabihin ni Tito hindi naintindihan ni Helen ang binigay na gamot na maraming kumplikasyun sa kanya kahit pinaliwanag ng doktor. Inom lang ng inom dahil sa napakatanga niya, buntis na inom pa rin ng gamot na dapat hininto niya.
Sino ang maysala?
Taong bayan o Tito Sotto?
He he he
HOy, Jhony tma ka may laman na ang tyan inom pa ng inom ng pills tapos sisishin ang pills. Hindi ka dpat maging senator SOtto, pangsarili lang ang iniisip ninyo hindi pangkalahatan. To stay alive you muzt join the society. Hay! naku!
Ang hindi ko nga maintindihan bakit sa first month ng paggamit ng pills dapat pag may side effect an sa babae dpat consulta na ulit sa GP kasi pinapalitan ng ibang klase ng pills. Ang akala ko ba mga educated sila? Kaya nga panahon na na ipasa ang Rh-Bill, kasi nga maraming walang kaalaman tungkol sa mga bagay na iyan; Basta sabi sa Bicol dali- nga dali.
Katangahan nga ninyong mag-asawa ang nangyaring pagkamatay nang first son sana ninyo. Kong bakit kasi gumamit kayo TITO at HELEN nang gamot gayong wala pa kayong anak… Tanga at BOBO ang tawag diyan. Ano kaya masasabi nang taga simbahan nang malaman nang mga Pari at Obispo na minsan ay gumamity ang mag-asawa nang ipinagbabawal na gamot para hindi magkaanak?
Irony, Sotto was attacking RH bill but in his speech at the Senate he admitted his wife was using contraceptive pill “Diane”.
Hilarious position of Sotto to Helen’s situation all in false & inconsistent opposition!
Very lousy explanation! Sotto should opt for termination! With people’s acclamation!
And face for firing position!
support RH bill…(http://soundcloud.com/the-florante/gumising)
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Scary, Tonto Sotto used an attorney to forage the internet for tidbits of info and cherrypick them rather than make face to face interview with experts in order to arrive at a decision and compose his speech that deals on medical issues?!?
Nagpapasiklab si Sotto. Ang bibigat ng mga words. Naintindihan kaya niya ng husto ang lahat ng sinabi niya? Sino ba ang pinasisiklaban at English pa ang pananalita? Kinopya lang pala ang ibang parte ng speech. Nabisto tuloy ang kabobohan. Resign ka na lang Sotto. Pati pag gamit mo ng condom hindi mo pa alam.
Ang problema kay Mr. Sotto, wala pa nga silang anak eh! bakit gumagamit na ng pills ang asawa niya? Ngayon sasabihin niya kasalanan ng pills hay! naku ang ignorante nga naman and not well informed na tao, hindi dapat maging senator.
Tama ka @runen…kaya lang mas marami ang ignorante na moboboto sa kanya!
Help our voters!
mga ignoranteng gusto ni Sotto na paramihin pa kaya ayaw ng RH Bill … hehehe
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Funny.