Posted on 10/18/2024 4:11:31 AM PDT by george76
The most serious allegation concerns Wikipedia. Harris’ book contained roughly two paragraphs copied from Wikipedia without citation.”..
The New York Times immediately pounced on Christopher Rufo’s report about instances of plagiarism in VP Kamala Harris’s book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.
The publication showcased its own plagiarism expert, who shrugged off the examples given to him: “This amount of plagiarism amounts to an error and not an intent to defraud.”
The NYT didn’t give Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today the complete dossier.
The expert tried to cover for the NYT because the article stated Bailey’s analysis was only his “initial reaction.”
Bailey received the full “dossier prepared by Dr. Stefan Weber,” known as the “plagiarism hunter.”
Bailey found it more severe than he initially thought, but he doesn’t think it’s the end of the world.
Bailey wrote about the dossier on his website Plagiarism Today:
With this new information, while I believe the case is more serious than I commented to the New York Times, the overarching points remain. While there are problems with this work, the pattern points to sloppy writing habits, not a malicious intent to defraud.
Is it problematic? Yes. But it’s also not the wholesale fraud that many have claimed it to be. It sits somewhere between what the two sides want it to be.
I love how Bailey, along with Weber, dismisses the self-plagiarism:
Furthermore, the report also treats these as less serious, calling them “maybe benign” examples of plagiarism. That makes sense as politicians, in general, have little, if any, expectation of originality.
That made me laugh.
Bailey found the Wikipedia accusations the most serious:
The most serious allegation concerns Wikipedia. Harris’ book contained roughly two paragraphs copied from Wikipedia without citation. To be clear, that is plagiarism. It’s compounded by the fact that Wikipedia is typically not seen as a reliable source, and, according to Weber, there was an error in the information.
The section quotes and cites a passage from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance but does not indicate that Wikipedia was used.
Most of the remaining passages are in situations where text was used verbatim but not quoted. The sources were largely cited and, in some cases, were quoted, though not all verbatim text was included.
We’ve seen this problem repeatedly, especially with works from this period. Poor writing techniques and the lack of accessible plagiarism detection tools made this a common problem, especially before the 2010s. While that doesn’t make it acceptable, it makes it more about sloppy writing habits than an intent to defraud.
Bailey noted that other people have received forgiveness “for much greater plagiarism sins,” and others, like in this book, “have been dismissed outright in academia.”
Overall, it’s sloppy.
It ticks me off because, as I said before, we had strict standards when I went to school and taught. None of this would be forgiven at those levels. Man, I remember teachers making sure we knew how to avoid plagiarism.
She’s not as strong of a plagarizer as Joe Biden.
Lock her up.
It is becoming obvious that there are people in Washington running the country who have NOT been elected, but are working in these administrations “carrying” Presidents. The people behind the scenes are the actual powers that be. Those people need to be outed, charged with subversion of the government (treason in my mind) and executed. You can not tell me I don’t have a right to say that. I demand that someone step up and do something. This has to STOP!!!
BTTT
I knew it. The NYT set the expert up to say that Kamala didn’t commit plagiarism so Kamala can say the story was debunked. Much like when 50 CIA commies lied for Hunter. Since the NYT reported on the story, I hope Fox picks it up.
Harris did not contribute a single keystroke to this book.
A few moments of listening to her speak is sufficient to conclude that .. she is functionally illiterate. She could not write a 500 word column for the worst law review in the country.
She is not very bright .. ~HT to the comments
The editors at the publishing house, Chronicle Books.. one would have thought they would have recognized the problems with the book. But apparently not. ~HT to the comments.
These are the same people who facilitated the assassination attempt on Trump, the same people ALLOWING wide-open immigration, the same people getting insane taxation laws passed, the same perverts encouraging, abetting and participating in homosexual activity and getting laws passed protecting same, the same people selling us out to China, the very same people causing everything in the country to go crazy. These people are behind the scenes, the politicians be damned, and they are forcing us to do THEIR will. I keep telling all of you that they are Federal Agency heads and supervisors. Apparently no one cares.
You are absolutely correct. And, the person(s) charged with getting the book out are barely more literate than she is, so they plagiarized.
“The people behind the scenes are the actual powers that be.”
And our elected officials know who they are. When these people go to Washington to get rich it’s quite easy to just look the other way.
It’s all about the three evils: Money, Power and Sex, but not necessarily in that order.
It would be nice to see a team of heavy hitters clean this up such as Trump, Musk, Kennedy and Flynn.
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creating a deterrent for those who are not protected from prosecution like the president VP and others in congress will leave those in office without an army. This is what we need to start
MSM tranny with a mask for the democrat party.
My shocked face:😑
The Power To Ignore.
This is classic fascism. Party loyalty and relationships are more important than competence.
Just look at Harvard University and the scandal there.
Everywhere there is liberalism, you will find incompetence and protection of failure so those most loyal to the party continue to be a member of the ruling class.
All Socialists lie. It’s in their DNA.
Well said and more coherent than anything from the cackling donkey.
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