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After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation
The wife of Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who accused Claudine Gay of being a plagiarist and led calls for her resignation as Harvard president, is now facing allegations of plagiarism herself.
Neri Oxman, a prominent former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has apologized after Business Insider identified multiple instances in which she lifted passages from other scholars’ work without proper attribution in her 2010 dissertation. She also pledged to review the primary sources and request the necessary corrections.
Business Insider on Thursday initially labeled four passages of Oxman’s dissertation as plagiarized – without any attribution – from Wikipedia entries. But by Friday, the outlet had found at least 15 such passages, a turn of events that was similar to that which led to Gay’s ouster from the Harvard presidency.
Business Insider also identified research papers written by Oxman that contained plagiarism, including a 2007 paper – titled Get Real: Towards Performance Driven Computational Geometry – and a 2011 paper named Variable Property Rapid Prototyping.
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But she’s white, unlike the Harvard president. So it’s all cool.
She’s a Republican, which means there is no expectation of self-consistency or morality.
Well, she is not Harvard president - a position that requires highest integrity. She is launching some company (according to the article), so, it is not as important. However, the irony is huge here.
She’s a hypocrite.
When has she ever involved herself in this? It’s her husband, and she’s probably not happy that his attack has resulted in this exposure of her plagiarism.
She would be hypocrite if she though that she herself is acceptable for the same position. Which she might do, and in that case she would be a hypocrite, but we do not know for sure.
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She never criticized anyone, she’s probably pretty pissed her husband went on this crusade and it ended up wrecking her reputation too.
But, his billions of dollars will cushion the blow.
She never criticized anyone. Her husband did.
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What? Neri Oxman and her husband are two different people who can hold opposing views. I understand the situation and why her husband is being criticized for his hypocrisy.
The person I was responding to literally wrote that she was the hypocrite for making statements against Claudine Gay, which is not the truth.
Every conservative accusation is a confession.
Real incontrovertible and inexcusable plagiarism too. Way more than Gay was accused of. Just straight up copying Wikipedia.
Karma’s a bitch ain’t it.
Title gore.
Put her name in the title ffs
Bill Ackman suuuuucks
Here’s the thing: Most of these people aren’t plagiarizing in the traditional way we think of it. They’re paying poor college students from less prestigious colleges to write the research papers for them, and then slap their name on it. It’s actually not surprising the poor student might drop some plagiarized stuff in there, because they’re not really getting paid what they are worth. Deep down they know they are helping build a world where they will never get ahead because they’re literally being paid to do the research that will give someone else far better credentials than they will ever have.
This has been going on for fucking decades. You just find some poor smart schmuck who doesn’t have the financial ability to get their education in order, and offer them the finances they need in exchange for essentially giving a rich kid a fake prestigious degree, based on the fact a lot of the rich kids “original research” was done by someone else entirely.
All these rich twats have been faking their credentials for decades, that’s why the mask has so visibly come off in the last few years: they don’t even realize the “rules” of the game they are playing, and now we’re officially back to a world where the aristocracy thinks they’re better than the rest of us by simply just existing. They have zero functional reason to believe this, especially when they pay others to do their work and jobs for them, because they’re far too painfully incompetent. The thing is, they don’t think they are incompetent, and they won’t take no for an answer, so they’ve slowly gotten rid of all the competent people at the top, as well, because they can’t have people questioning their vision. (Elon Musk has done a great job of showing how thin their skin is and how ready he is to eject anyone from his workplaces who question him.)
If you think any “elite” person whether at Harvard or post-Harvard in the business world hasn’t partaken in this, you’re kidding yourself. Yale and Harvard fucking exist to crank out these “elite” people who go on to become billionaires. Bill Ackman is a Harvard graduate himself and his wife was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It’s a big club and we ain’t in it.
People aren’t farming out their dissertations to other grad students (usually). Yeah, once a person is a PI, their grad students do most of the actual writing, but anything written in their dissertation or as a grad student or post-doc is almost certainly all them, especially if they are the first author.
And even once they are a PI or even a department chair or university president, anything they write where they are listed as the first author is 100% their responsibility.
Your post just reads like you don’t really understand how academia works.
Most of these people aren’t plagiarizing in the traditional way we think of it.
There is no we here. That is a false construction projected to add authority to the entire following wall of text.
From the downvotes, I’m guessing most people aren’t aware of the cottage industry existing around paid dissertations
I can’t speak for everyone, but I am aware of it, and I’m also aware it’s tiny minority of dissertations, especially in STEM fields. You can’t get around the fact that in scientific fields, you need the right equipment for the research your group is working on.
