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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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They mentioned Claudine Gay but these examples are so much worse. As i understand, her plagiarism was largely about background information with the citation present but not putting quotes on the material. This stuff is just page after page of copy paste. What happened to their thesis committee? Is there no thesis defense in these subjects?

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is there no thesis defense in these subjects?

I think there is a problem throughout the soft subjects, the academics are all doing some form of con, either publishing nonsense, plagiarising or some combination of both. The last thing they want is for scrutiny from outside which will blow the whole scam wide open. So they wave through these dissertations and theses hoping that by not making waves they will continue in their cushy job for life.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it's clear that these high ranking people only care about the piece of paper so they can apply for jobs as "director of" whatever. I'm just surprised because I'm used to all my friends having defended a thesis in a science field. No clue what actually goes on in sociology fields. I know some people can graduate with an exam instead but these cases are all describing their thesis papers.