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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry but I think people are conflating Brennan with other bad actors in this story, unfairly. Brennan has been one of the people (and “blue check marks”) speaking out against what Larson and others did from early on. Kidneygate came out guns blazing, accusing her of several things she had not done and threatening to “put her on blast.”

Brennan is someone who is always kind, thoughtful, and generous on social media. Her work is heavily researched and she is a skilled and talented writer. I think kidneygate got caught up in the plagiarism of it all and came at Brennan with lots of demands, incorrect accusations, and no effort to understand what had happened. Kidneygate has around 3k followers. There is absolutely no reason to assume Brennan had even seen the account or that it was where she got these screenshots.

Don’t indict Brennan because if your anger at others. She is one of the good guys.[/quote]

She may be one of the good guys, but it isn't up for debate at this point that (a) she used unattributed images in her story that (b) have since been identified as originating from kidneygate given that they are pixel by pixel identical and (c) that Brennan has quietly replaced all those unattributed images but (d) Brennan hasn't acknowledged that she used unattributed images in the first place, or credited the original creator, who she now knows. She also has unfairly referred to kidneygate as a troll (kidneygate is not a troll, and those images were originally created by kidneygate), and is now posting self-pitying posts on Twitter. It doesn't really matter whether, when Brennan was writing, she did or did not know about kidneygate (though I would be surprised if she didn't). There isn't much question now that she used images that were not created by her in the essay, but she did not identify as not created by her.

It's objectively not great behavior.[/quote]

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