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She absolutely cares. Such humiliation. |
Ok so it’s ok to run a tech business with fake credentials? What if you found out that your cardiothoracic surgeon had fake credentials? How about a plastic surgeon? How about an electrician? Or a bus driver with no license? |
| Who TF cares about Harvard? No one normal goes to Harvard anyway |
If Oxman really is guilty of plagiarism, I honestly don’t see how MIT can continue to honor her PhD. If they just let it slide, it would destroy their academic reputation. |
Let's not exaggerate. Plagiarizing in your dissertation and/or in some academic articles does not mean that you have "fake credentials." And that goes for Gay and Oxman as well. They have actual PhDs, not fake ones, but have engaged in instances of plagiarism. |
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Kind of a weird situation. You find out your pilot doesn't have a license until after he takes off, flies through a thunderstorm, and lands the plane a continent away.
Is the value is the license or the ability? |
Should there be a zero tolerance policy when it comes to plagiarism? Should one instance of plagiarism in a dissertation completely invalidate a PhD? |
I don't think so personally, but I would be interested to know what the policies surrounding this are at universities and if they are similar or vary widely across universities. Any academics how know something about this issue care to weigh in? |
The pilot still requires a license to fly, no matter what the ability. And no one should be able to obtain a PhD after directly plagiarizing Wikipedia and ultimately run a tech business. |
It wasn’t a small mistake, this was pages upon pages, I believe, of directly plagiarized material from Wikipedia. |
It seems like no university can afford to be known as the place where they let you get away with a little bit of plagiarism. They would become a laughingstock in the academic world. |
it applies to undergrads who are expelled for less, yes same rules for all. |
I'm pretty sure Mark Zuckerberg has been running Facebook with just a high school diploma? |
The Zuck created Facebook IN SPITE of Harvard. They wanted him to shut it down, hence why he dropped out of the university. He saw something powerful, while Larry Summers said it wasn't going to amount to much LOL |
However, Harvard was where Zuckerberg met the partners with which he co-created Facebook (his roommates). And that's where ol' Ackman met the business partner with which he launched his first business: the investment firm Gotham Partners. So, at minimum, as much as many of you like to deride elite universities, they are at minimum a place where successful people make important connections. |