*** Recent MANN post's cited article author denies actual authorship ***

Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-10-26 17:39

Yesterday, MANN posted an item that included an article entitled "Evidence-based Domestic Violence Awareness Training" in Vol. 3, Issue 3 (2014) of New Male Studies: An International Journal published by the Australian Institute of Male Health and Studies (http://aimhs.com.au/).

The attributed author, Amy Wilkins, Ph.D., of U Colorado-Boulder, has informed me she is *not* the author of this article. Whether this misattribution was intended or not with or without malice and by whom is not known at the moment. However at this point, I recommend that any publication, distribution, or citation of the work as hers stop immediately; failure can result in legal consequences. Further, I recommend anyone who has posted, published, or forwarded the article in whole or part convey the substance of this news to the receivers who should probably do likewise to whomever else they have passed it along to, and so on ad infinitum.

Academic misattribution or forgery, intended or not, are serious and possibly criminal offenses. MANN in no way condones for any reason such or similar behavior. In order for the MRM to stand apart, its champions must have integrity and a strong commitment to facts/truth. Whether or not anyone part of or sympathetic to the MRM was willfully involved in a misattribution or forgery isn't known. (This could be an act of agent provacateurism, or a simple "printer's error", or whatever.) In any case, what is known currently is that the article's purported author denies categorically that she wrote it.

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10/26:

There seems to be another scholar by the same name who writes about DV and may have been the author of the article. This hasn't been confirmed yet, but it's now the going theory. It also appears that the article is attributed to the wrong author in numerous places, so the attribution error may have occurred shortly after the article's publication and the bad info just got spread around at the lightning speed of the Internet. Ugh, every author's nightmare come true.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2014-10-27 01:29

In 2011 this Amy Wilkins was a nursing student at the University of East Anglia. Does anybody else have more information?

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Submitted by chuck on Sat, 2014-11-08 23:19

The issue isn't about either the Amy Wilkins you speak of or the one at U Colorado-Boulder so much as it is that the journal received a misattributed item. The matter is for the journal and the Amy Wilkins at U CO-Boulder to investigate. The submitted item may not have been written by anyone named Amy Wilkins, or it may have been written by someone with that name but neither of the two mentioned between us.

In short, it's a matter for them to get to the bottom of. If Amy Wilkins (of U CO) feels the need to share the results, if any, of her investigation into the matter and is OK with me posting same, I will. But really, this is an academic misattribution issue (i.e., not an MRM concern that I can see), the reason for which is still to the best of my knowledge unknown.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-11-09 00:58