După ce a lansat scandalul plagiatului făcut în anul 2003 de premierul Victor Ponta, prestigioasa revistă Nature reia subiectul pe website-ul ei, 
updatând informaţia la zi şi informându-şi cititorii că o comisie a mediului academic românesc a decis că într-adevăr Victor Ponta a plagiat.
Autorul este acelaşi Quirin Schiermeier. Lăsăm să vorbească de la sine rândurile din Nature:
„A Romanian academic committee has said that the country’s prime minister, Victor Ponta, plagiarized parts of his PhD thesis, an allegation that was reported last month by Nature1. But the committee officially ceased to exist before the end of its meeting on Friday 29 June in Bucharest.
At the meeting, 13 members of Romania’s National Council for the Attestation of University Titles (CNATDCU) unanimously concluded that Ponta had copied and pasted large parts — about 85 out of 307 pages (excluding appendices) — of his 2003 thesis on the International Criminal Court, though that judgment did not consider more subtle plagiarism such as passages where some words have been replaced by synonyms.
However, acting education minister Liviu Pop interrupted the meeting to tell its members that their mandate had been withdrawn. He declared that by ministerial order the council’s by-laws had been rendered null and void, after it had failed to deliver a report of its activities and performance that he says he had requested on 21 June. CNATDCU members reject this reasoning.„