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Bill Ackman's academic wife Neri Oxman's dissertation is marred by plagiarism
- dekhn 3y agoBased on her long post, my guess would be that she fades away from MIT and focuses on her company (https://oxman.com/ https://oxman.com/) but I can't really tell what they are selling
- bob6667 3y agoIf you had bothered to read the article you would know that she is no longer employed by MIT so has nothing to “fade away” from
- dekhn 3y agoI did read the article, I just missed that line, and I thought she still had her appointment because she has a website at MIT (https://www.media.mit.edu/people/neri/overview/ https://www.media.mit.edu/people/neri/overview/).
- confd 3y agoThat is a mouthful of a headline.
- fullshark 3y agoThe funniest threat of all this was "you don't want to go down that rabbit hole, everyone plagiarizes." So I guess we'll get to see more of the academia cabal eat itself.
- bradley13 3y agoSpeaking as an academic: No, everyone does not plagiarize. I don't let my undergrad students do it, but they may get away with a warning. In the worst case, I have failed them out of a course. A graduate student? Multiple instances in their thesis or dissertation? I would fail them so fast their head would spin. Then they would be up before a board at the school, to see if they should be failed entirely out of the program. I never heard of Ackman before this weekend, and his motivation sucks. But I hope he really does go through with his threat. Check the dissertations of every staff and faculty member at all of the Ivy's. A bucket of cold water may inspire some housecleaning.
- 6R1M0R4CL3 3y agoi bet someone is gonna have a look at the author of that article's academic or college work too soon.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoWorth reading the other side. Note Oxman's graceful reply to the accusations. Contrast her response with that of Claudine Gay. https://twitter.com/NeriOxman/status/1742993073078947843?t=D_uR16WDJzgOZCzZrB_tlg&s=19 https://twitter.com/NeriOxman/status/1742993073078947843?t=D... https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1743407502312505795?t=XgYw_wJLnzJfbkg6RvMOxw&s=19 https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1743407502312505795?t=... https://twitter.com/codybrown/status/1743414136476664263?t=MqZbHyMKPYoijuN_HDi0SQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/codybrown/status/1743414136476664263?t=M...
- benzible 3y agoFirst, she didn't cop to the wholesale Wikipedia copying that BI later found. A truly "gracious" response would be to fully come clean. Second, presumably she signed off on Ackman's response, which was to launch an investigation of the entire MIT faculty. Again, not what I would call "gracious". Further, Ackman characterized this as an attack on his family whereas when he did exactly the same thing to Gay he was "addressing problems in higher education". Yeah, sure… Also, if, as he has claimed, Gay’s plagiarism is evidence that DEI is causing unqualified people to be promoted, what does it say that his wife and probably a bunch of other white MIT faculty did the same thing? Looking forward to him recanting that.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoBusiness Insider targeted Ackman's wife because she's Ackman's wife. Ackman targeted Gay because she was President of Harvard. President of Harvard is an important role in academia. Wife of Ackman is not.
- benzible 3y agoWife of guy moralizing about plagiarism and making sweeping racialized claims is quite relevant, not to mention that it's belittling to Oxman to reduce her solely to "wife of Ackman". She was a very high profile academic prior to her relationship with him. More generally, the idea that academic work can only be investigated when the faculty member has some sort of high-profile leadership role is ludicrous. By your logic, the investigations of Dan Ariely, Francesca Gino and others were not sufficiently important to merit investigation and coverage by the press. And you didn't address anything else I said about her response, which amounted to a "limited hangout" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout) or her husband's response which again, she presumably signed off on.
- MilnerRoute 3y agoAckman's wife put the author's name and publication date immediately after the material which she used -- but did not put quotation marks around it. That's what all of this is about.
- esoterica 3y agoNope, multiple instances where she plagiarized (including from Wikipedia!) with zero citations anywhere.
- DiogenesKynikos 3y agoWhat you're describing is actually more like what Gay did. Oxman was caught copying from Wikipedia without any attribution. If you look at the supposed examples of Gay's plagiarism, she cites the works she's using. Most of the examples are of the form, "As John Smith writes, a dog can often be a man's best friend (Smith 1990)." Then you look at Smith (1990), and you find something like, "A dog is often a man's best friend." Gay's mistake was leaving out quotation marks when she paraphrased too closely. It's not really plagiarism in spirit, because she's obviously not passing off anyone else's work as her own, but it could run afoul of the rules.
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- devnull42069 3y agoJeffery Epstein would like a refund.
- raincom 3y agoLove to see Ackman's project of going after all academics at MIT for any instances of plagiarism. Usually fights between different groups of elites show what's going on.