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| PP is trying to re-frame this and move the focus away from Mr. and Mrs.. They have been trying for a day or two. Completely random and super tangential (but inflaming) comments. |
| Not cool, dude. How about continuing with sincere conversation? These molotov cocktails are only meant to make this focused thread into just another DCUM flame fest |
Dude. You can’t “resign” from your PhD. Maybe ease up on the gummies? |
Everyone is wondering how in the hell does a person get to a doctorate level and be blissfully unaware that not only is plagiarizing wrong but direct plagiarism from Wikipedia? How does that happen? I have known students who were expelled from undergrad for less serious offenses. This is insane. |
Ok then MIT can revoke it or she can own it and admit that she is not an honest PhD. |
I am sincerely disgusted with our current system of higher education. Oxman and Gay are amongst many who have cheated and lied to get ahead while the rest of us were either expelled for the same or less or we killed ourselves trying to follow the rules. |
Who was her thesis advisor? Massive egg on their face. She got to do an MIT PhD by leveraging her parents network. Oldest trick in the nepo book. |
Does anyone know how Wikipedia enter its content? Is it possible that Dr. Oxman or her associates entered the content about her on Wikipedia? |
Yep, it happens often, it’s just the irony of all of this. Her husband, being the academic integrity official and all…you’d think he would have suspected she was a fraud. |
Her thesis advisor - William J Mitchell - died the same month he supposedly “certified” her thesis. 😳 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Mitchell He died June 11, 2010. Her thesis was certified by Mitchell and defended in June 2010. wtf…. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59192 |
Oh that’s convenient, he was on his death bed… |
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So?
I don’t really understand this. She’s not his employee or something. They’re married. What do you want him to do, make her sleep on the couch? |
Of course not. Young scholars make mistakes, especially in something as unwieldy as a dissertation. She addressed each charge of plagiarism in detail and on balance her explanations and apologies seemed reasonable. Gay did not do this, because there were many more instances and because they were not confined to her first scholarly work. |
Just realize there are undergrads who are expelled for doing this and even less. Undergrads whose life trajectory was changed due to plagiarism. Undergrads who weren’t able to earn degrees. |
As his wife. She has really let him down. That’s her only job. |