>If you reward the people who plagiarize over the people who actually did the work, there is no more motivation to do the work and the scientific endeavor as a whole suffers.

But why is this more important in science than in any other field? I'm just saying that they're saying it's especially important, but it's actually, at best just as important or possibly less important, because it's more important in science that accurate information get out than in other fields, whether or not it's plagiarized.