Posted on 01/07/2015 11:55:37 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Bill Federer, the author of a “quote book” featured repeatedly in Ben Carson’s America the Beautiful, defends the neurosurgeon-turned-presidential aspirant from charges of plagiarism.
“In my estimation, he has used my material exactly the way I wanted my material to be used,” Federer tells National Review Online. “The fact that he had cited me 16 times shows that his intention was to be honest and up front in his use of my material and the two times that the BuzzFeed article cited that he had not, in my estimation, is an editor’s oversight, errata, and it’s not plagiarism.”
The conservative author was responding to a BuzzFeed report that Carson had plagiarized from Federer’s America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations. The report pointed to multiple instances in which Carson had used text from other sources without quotation marks to indicate that he was not writing in his own voice. Federer blames that on the editor, providing NRO with e-mails that show him collaborating with Candy Carson (who co-authored the book with her husband) and reading the manuscript after it had gone through three drafts.
“It’s one thing a student going online and is cheating and taking someone else’s paper,” Federer says. In this case, “there wasn’t a habit of using somebody else’s thoughts and claiming them as your own.”
To buttress the argument that the editor made a mistake, Federer points to a quote from his book, via Carson’s, that refers to James Madison as “John” Madison.
“In other words, the editor made a mistake,” he says.
Federer adds that he felt “misrepresented” by the BuzzFeed story because it portrayed Carson as “a low-level plagiarist when this was an honest editor’s error.”
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h/t kristinn. Thanks!
Dr. Benjamin Solomon “Ben” Carson Sr.
Nicely done and thank you for that link. My goodness, the short knives are out for this man, too. How petty.
I’d love to see Dr. Carson as our HHS Secretary or lead position in shaping or healthcare policy. His book, “Healing Hands”, written well before 0bamacare, outlines many weaknesses in our healthcare system that he had to navigate and those need to be addressed. Now that 0bamacare has been forced on us, they’ve made it worse by several orders of magnitude.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3221753/posts?page=35#35
Buzz Feed is least trusted news source.
Not sure how all this got started but Im backing away from this guy fast.
Doctors rarely make good administrators. What America’s health care system needs is a solid dose of competition.
Why can you find a CVS across the street from a Walgreens, but hospitals get regional monopolies?
Why can’t a doctor, even a top surgeon or specialist, not work across state borders in the United States?
Why can you order everything, including services, across stateliness, but not insurance?
Local, county and state licensing, permitting and regulatory schemes are anti-commerce and in conflict with the extant Commerce Clause.
Why don’t we use it to break the monopolies? America was meant to be a giant free trade zone. Let’s make it so.
Economic liberty does more to destroy excessive government than anything else. That’s history. Let’s make it our future.
Poor reporting by BuzzFeed.
No surprise there.
Buzzfeed really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Our retail pharmacies are very good at their "mission", but I am shaking my head at your fatuous comparison to a regional hospital. If you want your stent put in by a pharm tech, you'll need to go to India or something
You must be in healthcare. What you state isn’t true at all. The free market is best for all, including health care.
If I could get a stent put in for the cost of a pharm tech, then isn’t that a good thing?
Why does a regional hospital monopoly protect me or any other consumer? Be specific.
India, along with other 3rd world countries have some great healthcare facilities. They compete on a worldwide basis with the best and cost a fraction of what is charged domestically. Look it up.
I think you may have applied to medical school and could not get in, and ascribe to the "guild mentality" of many I have met on FR. Did you know it's also very tough to get into pharmacy school and nursing school? It is very expensive to educate any kind of medical personnel. It's not like a walk down neighborhood law school in a basement.
The problem with the cost of medical care is indeed a lack of free market--and ruinous regulations and taxes. But different states have different licensing requirements, designed to stop incompetent doctors and other personnel from crossing over state lines to avoid disasters in the first state. I'd say the states should be allowed their "market" as well, and let the citizens vote with their feet--to India, if need be.
Another leftist hit piece exposed as lies and I expect no retraction from them. It’s not in them to admit when and where they are wrong or even just busted.
Bump!
America’s God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations
by William J. Federer
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/197689.America_s_God_and_Country_Encyclopedia_of_Quotations
So where is the retraction from BuzzFeed?
HHS is one of the agencies that should be eliminated and the government shouldn't have a " health care policy".
Add veterinary school to your list.
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