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No, Aditya's reputation has suffered because he is associated with the University of Minnesota. This is what happens when someone screws up, then all their asso

No, Aditya's reputation has suffered because he is associated with the University of Minnesota. This is what happens when someone screws up, then all their associates get tarred with the same broad brush, no matter how much they were involved. I'm familiar with a case where a faculty member engaged in a case of autoplagiarism and submitted the same paper to two high-profile journals. His graduate students had trouble publishing in reputable journals for years after, and he also earned himself a ban from the national funding agency. For that kind of breach of trust retribution is savage, and that's why you don't engage in it to begin with.

staticassertion 6y ago
I don't want to write out a thought out response to such a joke of a post, so I'll just jot down some notes: 1. Aditya being affiliated with UMN should not damn him to being falsely accused of malice. Greg and others have repeatedly falsely accused Aditya of making malicious contributions, and your answer is "well he goes to UMN"? 2. Plagiarism is irrelevant, as is your entire reference to some unrelated event. 3. Aditya didn't engage in it, though 'savage' is a fine word for how Greg behaved.
- HarryHirsch 6y ago
  "Joke of a post" is inappropiate. You are saying what perhaps ought to happen (and that's a matter of debate), and I am saying what has happened, I was talking of a past event that happened as described. A professor committed an act of misconduct, and his students suffered for it. Well, it's happening again. That's what happens in a reputation-based environment and it's happening again here. We hope the University of Minnesota offers support to the affected students.
  - staticassertion 6y ago
    Yeah it's utter nonsense. This isn't comparable to plagiarism, and even if it were your story is about a stupid situation just like this one, where innocent, unrelated parties were associated with something they had nothing to do with. That you're somehow saying that this is justified or normal is absurd - we should accuse all students of the university of malice? Everyone tangentially related is guilty? Ridiculous, not even worth arguing against. The university already apologized. Where is Greg's apology? Where is Greg's retraction for falsely accusing Adity?

staticassertion 6y ago

I don't want to write out a thought out response to such a joke of a post, so I'll just jot down some notes: 1. Aditya being affiliated with UMN should not damn him to being falsely accused of malice. Greg and others have repeatedly falsely accused Aditya of making malicious contributions, and your answer is "well he goes to UMN"? 2. Plagiarism is irrelevant, as is your entire reference to some unrelated event. 3. Aditya didn't engage in it, though 'savage' is a fine word for how Greg behaved.

HarryHirsch 6y ago
"Joke of a post" is inappropiate. You are saying what perhaps ought to happen (and that's a matter of debate), and I am saying what has happened, I was talking of a past event that happened as described. A professor committed an act of misconduct, and his students suffered for it. Well, it's happening again. That's what happens in a reputation-based environment and it's happening again here. We hope the University of Minnesota offers support to the affected students.
- staticassertion 6y ago
  Yeah it's utter nonsense. This isn't comparable to plagiarism, and even if it were your story is about a stupid situation just like this one, where innocent, unrelated parties were associated with something they had nothing to do with. That you're somehow saying that this is justified or normal is absurd - we should accuse all students of the university of malice? Everyone tangentially related is guilty? Ridiculous, not even worth arguing against. The university already apologized. Where is Greg's apology? Where is Greg's retraction for falsely accusing Adity?