Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President's Exit Accused of Plagiarism

Wife of Investor Who Pushed for Harvard President's Exit Accused of Plagiarism(nytimes.com)

5 points by slyrus 2 years ago | 5 comments

Plagiarism is bad, sure. Why do we find them only when we are trying to throw some shit on people? Why not before? How come that people can make a huge career out of cheating for decades, instead of kicking them out in the moment they hand in their plagiarized work?

Apparently it is possible to find it. If we can find it now, we could have found it last week, and last year too. If only people cared...

Baldbvrhunter 2 years ago | |

https://archive.ph/hlMcz

"accused of"

"they involved only a few paragraphs of a 330-page thesis."

Systems like Turn-it-in gives you a % plagiarism score and it is usually >0 as it includes your citation text etc. and any direct quotes. So for a 330 page thesis a few sentences will not really make a difference. Your assessors wil let it slide as, on balance, it's not a sufficient problem compared to your original work.

So this looks like a hit job to turn the Gay incident into "see, everyone does it" so they can bring her back later when everyone has moved to the next thing.

We all know it is nothing to do with plagiarism but upsetting certain people.

tjpnz 2 years ago | | |

I don't think anyone was under the allusion that it would somehow bring her back. Does nothing to absolve her of the antisemitism.