Posted on 01/05/2024 11:51:26 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
The billionaire hedge fund manager and major Harvard donor Bill Ackman seized on revelations that Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, had plagiarized some passages in her academic work to underscore his calls for her removal following what he perceived as her mishandling of large protests against Israel's bombardment of Gaza on Harvard's campus.
An analysis by Business Insider found a similar pattern of plagiarism by Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, who became a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017.
Oxman plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her 2010 doctoral dissertation, Business Insider found, including at least one passage directly lifted from other writers without citation.
Her husband, Ackman, has taken a hardline stance on plagiarism. On Wednesday, responding to news that Gay is set to remain a part of Harvard's faculty after she resigned as president, he wrote on X that Gay should be fired completely due to "serious plagiarism issues." ...
In 2019, emails uncovered by the Boston Globe showed Ackman pressured MIT to keep Oxman's name out of a brewing scandal over an original sculpture she gave to Jeffrey Epstein in thanks for a $125,000 donation to her lab. ...
In Oxman's dissertation, completed at MIT, she plagiarized a 1998 paper by two Israeli scholars, Steve Weiner and H. Daniel Wagner, a 2006 article published in the journal Nature by the New York University historian Peder Anker, and a 1995 paper published in the proceedings of the Royal Society of London. She also lifted from a book published in 1998 by the German physicist Claus Mattheck and, in a more classical mode of plagiarism, copied one paragraph from Mattheck without any quotation or attribution. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Neri Oxman has the advantage of NOT being an anti-semite or a candidate for President of Harvard.
At that rate she could be president of a university some day.
So the whole hit piece is a big whataboutism.
A lot of people do it, including news media reporters who state their news reports as "exclusive, only on channel ...".
Even I was guilty of it back in high school, when I was pressed for time on a lengthy history report I needed to turn in. I stuck some of my French language reports in the middle of my history report. I got an A, which was puzzling because the French section had nothing to do with the history report written in English. Never did that again, but it showed that reports are not necessarily checked beyond the first couple of pages. At least I never did it in a paying job.
Neri Oxman is sooooooo NOT GUILTY.
I had to keep a journal in some useless philosophy course in college. I wrote five pages and then repeated them over and over again, word for word. I got an A. But this was not plagiarism because I was stealing my own lazy work.
Fake news. Retaliatory hit piece.
Unlike Gay, Oxman has an exceptional academic record.
Unlike Gay, Oxman apologized that out of 100’s of publications she made one or two citation format mistakes (though in all cases there was attribution — just a missing quote or incorrectly formatted citation)
Unlike Gay, Oxman does not support Hamas killing and torturing Jews.
The dirty secret about much of academic “original intellectual content’ is that plagarism is rampant.
A full investigation of everyone for plagiarism will be mutually assured destruction.
Good riddance !
Actually, in addition to Woke, academics now have another way to cancel each other - plagiarism accusations.
Let the fur fly !
Be a good time for Ackman to retain a food taster.
Gio (GiantArt) who is an dissident-Right Canadian has a hilarious and foul-mouthed rant about academic plagarism, and how universal it is.
(starts at the link)
https://youtu.be/qfSuEsXUi9Q?t=4451
Smart, and ethical. You were just emphasizing your points. Just as in life, one has to repeat what one says, repeatedly.
Ackman is not a white hat.
He and the rest of Deep State can have at each other with my blessing.
If that what’s really going on here...
What is this? Seems to be a childish contest of oneupsmanship. The point being???
Because her dissertation was plagiarized, we need to keep the borders secure like they are now, imprison all the J6 terrorists for life without parole, pass a separate Ukraine aid package, have the feds take over all elections in the country, have unlimited mail-in voting,...
Well, ok, Neri should resign immediately!
And, just keep on keeping on by firing everyone they can find that is a professor and particularly a professor or a President of a University.
Only then will higher educations reputation and credibility even BEGIN to turn around.
,,correcting myself........ I meant to say fire everyone IF they in fact committed plagiarism.
...celebrity ACADEMIC wife...
ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.
She’d be way more attractive with a smile and a neater hairdo.
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