The chief diversity officer of Columbia University's medical school, Alade McKen, plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting huge chunks of material without attribution

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[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Everyone plagiarizes now it seems. Maybe they always did but these woke people pissed off "toxic males" so they combed over their writings and compared it to others. Lesson learned.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Probably always- if you're in college, there's always going to be at least one paper you mail it in and just reword some things in the reference. I'm sure the people combed over could be found to do it too if someone tried.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

These aren’t undergraduate papers. These are postgraduate dissertations. Plagiarism on a paper for an UG course is bad, but in a PG dissertation that is the entire basis for the awarding of your advanced/postgrad degree including PhDs is next level and should be grounds for immediate termination.

The fact that it seems to be so rife in the softer academic subjects is interesting, the intellectual toll is already lower than in the hard sciences/philosophy/economics/etc and plagiarism is just an admission that you lack the intellectual ability.

Hopefully the plagiarism-pogrom continues and takes many more scalps.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It makes sense to me why it's so rife in these diversity-based subjects, to be honest: facts don't care about your feelings, and "you can only use peer-reviewed sources as references" doesn't care about that one person who tweeted how it made them feel sad when a person called them Danganronpaself with one flag but they totally felt Danganronpaself with this other flag at that second.

The fewer peer-reviewed sources you can use, the easier it is to plagiarize.