A long article, but what I found most astonishing was an Oxford University Press Medical Textbook plagiarizing from Wikipedia! https://cdn.theatlantic.com/asse

A long article, but what I found most astonishing was an Oxford University Press Medical Textbook plagiarizing from Wikipedia! https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/files/textbook_vs._wikipedia.jpg https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/files/textbook_vs._... From the article: "He pulled up the page’s revision history to identify the offending editor. He saw that the section was co-written in 2006 by two users, Rhys and ChyranandChloe, and that it was updated in 2010. He jumped back over to the textbook and saw that it was published in 2011. It turns out Heilman had it backwards: It was someone on Oxford’s side, perhaps Lloyd, who had taken from Wikipedia. (Lloyd did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)" "The plagiarism was barely concealed. For reasons that remain unclear, some of the original citations from the Wikipedia page dropped out, and were replaced by pointers to other articles—articles that didn’t appear to support the claims made in the text, according to Heilman. In that sense, the Oxford textbook did not simply contain plagiarized text from Wikipedia; it appeared to make it less reliable." "Christian Purdy, a spokesperson for Oxford University Press, acknowledged that some text was copied, but says this didn’t qualify as plagiarism. Instead, he called it an “inadvertent omission of an appropriate attribution.”"