Bill Ackman forgives wife for plagiarism

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Anonymous wrote:She is no longer a university professor nor is she a president of any university. Embarrassing? Yes Impactful to anyone other than her? No

Her Ph.D. should be rescinded.

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Anonymous wrote:Her response should be given credit. She claims she attributed properly but did not properly place quotation marks. Which, while problematic, is completely different from the Harvard President. Indeed, if that’s all they happened, it just shows how egregious the Harvard president’s plagiarism was.

Still no excuse.

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They discovered the truth while being deceptive? Is that the argument? Classic ad hominem

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oxman had 32 instances of plagiarism in her thesis alone: the initial 4 passages in the Friday article + about 28 instances in the follow up Saturday article.

I mean, that’s insane. It’s as if no one at MIT reviewed her thesis. [/quote]

That is antisemitic. [/quote]
Of course it is. It’s so bad it’s unreal, this is classic antisemitism, pointing out her junior high level plagiarism as an MTI doctoral student is very prejudiced. [/quote]

She ain't gonna be president of Harvard in Cambridge.
MA. Maybe Harvard that,'s part of Trump Univ.

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Anonymous wrote:She is no longer a university professor nor is she a president of any university. Embarrassing? Yes Impactful to anyone other than her? No

Her Ph.D. should be rescinded.

So long as you agree that all other academics with the same issue (or worse, like Gay) also lose theirs. That’s gonna be a lot of rescinded PhDs.

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Anonymous wrote:She is no longer a university professor nor is she a president of any university. Embarrassing? Yes Impactful to anyone other than her? No

Her Ph.D. should be rescinded.

So long as you agree that all other academics with the same issue (or worse, like Gay) also lose theirs. That’s gonna be a lot of rescinded PhDs.

Fine we don’t need liars and cheats in higher education, this is a wonderful thing. Upholding academic integrity is in the best interests of everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Dude lives too much online. He has $4b. He should be living the dream. Instead he spends his days tweeting while being a total ahole (Rittenhouse supporter, Epstein pal, profiting off the 08 financial meltdown, BS with shorting stocks after getting the SEC involved). Dude doesn’t know when the just shut up. Blowing himself up and taking down his wife#2. Mind boggling.

The problem isn’t just that he doesn’t know when to shut up. The problem is that he is using his wealth and reputation to go after people he doesn’t like and impose his will on others. Why aren’t more of us outraged that the billionaire class—of any political persuasion—has become so powerful ?

What is he doing beyond tweeting?

Apparently building a whole artificial intelligence company specifically to search out plagiarists at universities and newspapers. Starting with MIT the the newspaper tat outed his wife.

But the damage is done. He took down his own wife. He just looks like a clown now.

Except no-one cares about his wife's dissertation, and she is no longer in academia.

If Bill is so invested in academic integrity he should care. If anyone should care it’s him. Oh and her PhD should be revoked.

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.

Because if they revoke hers, they will end up revoking the PhDs of most of their professors. And they know it.

You’re full of it. Not everyone is a fraudulent grifter. This woman was never a serious academic. Who admitted such a dunce to an MIT PhD program in the first place?

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.

Idk. Ask former president Gay.

I’d like to hear from both Gay and Oxman. Though Gay didn’t plagiarize directly from Wikipedia so that’s something. Wikipedia didn’t even exist then. Oxman’s plagiarism is more recent and more juvenile which is so rich coming out of MIT of all places.

But Gay’s was far, far more extensive.

I don’t get why you keep on talking about Wikipedia. Seems to weaken your point more than anything.

Gay forgot direct quotes but did provide attribution, as opposed to Oxman who copied Wikipedia articles verbatim. I would hope more academics would agree that the former could have truly been accidental while the latter is uneducated and worse yet, lazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Her response should be given credit. She claims she attributed properly but did not properly place quotation marks. Which, while problematic, is completely different from the Harvard President. Indeed, if that’s all they happened, it just shows how egregious the Harvard president’s plagiarism was.

Is there an example of this? From what I've read, attributing properly but not properly placing quotation marks is exactly the same as the Harvard President. However, just from her response to the first four instances, Oxman acknowledged that in one case she inadvertently paraphrased without providing any citation. Thank you to, uh, Anonymous for providing that response, by the way; finding posts on X is difficult, at least for me.

Oxman's Wikipedia copying looked worse. From the Business Insider article the definitions she copied were fairly technical, extensive and lifted pretty much verbatim, including an illustration. That does seem egregious unless it really turns out that she wrote that wiki article (pretty unlikely?). But I don't think rescinding PhDs is the usual punishment for this level of plagiarism, much less ousting a university president for what seems to me to have been a lesser offense.

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I mean there is a sort of chivalry here. 🤣🤣

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Anonymous wrote:Nori’s schtick is her career as as a bio architect or whatever. Well, she is a fraud. Bill can chase down other plagiarists but all he needs to do is look right next to him and there she is, she’s just as bad a Gay if not worse. Why is she worse? Because she directly quoted Wikipedia, that is unbelievable, it just proves that you can buy a degree. Nothing like shooting yourself in the foot.

How'd she get into a PhD program at MIT in the first place? Who rubber-stamped her unimpressive thinly sourced dissertation? And why was someone so unimpressive offered tenure at MIT when brilliant scholars don't get in the front door? Where did this woman suddenly come from? All the profiles about how impressive she is. So much ink and puff pieces creating this woman. Dating Brad Pitt. It's all very strange. Next thing you know she seems to have a powerful billionaire wrapped around her finger.

I was wondering the same things. Someone on Twitter pointed out that her PhD thesis misdefines tensors (and pulls the figure from Wikipedia). I watched a clip of her TED talk…she built this bizarre wearable intestine that had E. Coli in it. I mean that’s…interesting, but tenure at MIT? The technical faculty I know at elite institutions don’t cut and paste from Wiki or hang out with Brad Pitt. Yet everyone says she is this really respected scholar.

I saw a video of her going on about how she worked in a man’s world and embraced her femininity. Maybe Ackman is right; academia has rot in it and both plagiarism and DEI hires occur, except he missed that part of the rot was his wife.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to Bill Ackman wife for admitting her mistake and making correction. Shame on Gay for ignoring her mistakes and then blaming racism.

Shame on Ackerman for inciting all the racist bile sent to Gay.

Soo... by calling her out for her antisemitism and plagiarism, he somehow "incited racist bile"? How's that work? Are POC somehow off-limits from criticism? So interesting.
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Didn’t he also go on about how she was a DEI hire?

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to Bill Ackman wife for admitting her mistake and making correction. Shame on Gay for ignoring her mistakes and then blaming racism.

Shame on Ackerman for inciting all the racist bile sent to Gay.

Soo... by calling her out for her antisemitism and plagiarism, he somehow "incited racist bile"? How's that work? Are POC somehow off-limits from criticism? So interesting.
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Didn’t he also go on about how she was a DEI hire?

Yes, he was very clear about believing she was not qualified for the job. Strongly racist overtones to his comments.

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I also watched a TED talk and I cannot be the only one not comprehending what this woman is saying. What utter BS. How she ended up at MIT is tragic.