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Your source is problematic, OP.

I'll wait until it hits the mainstream news.
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He confessed.

"While I am steadfast that our results, data and findings are sound, I acknowledge recurrent language in the introductory sections.”

He copied a few pages of background material.

Does that change the core of the paper? No.

Was it a cowardly and dishonest way to fill space and set the context of the paper? Yes.

Is it claiming credit for someone else's expository work? Yes. [/quote]
What message does this send to UMD students?  If he plagiarized and apologized, and still retains his position, that's a terrible message to the students.  He needs to step down.

-parent of UMD student.[/quote]

I seriously hope that if an engineering student invented something amazing and when writing the results copied and pasted the introduction we would care more about the invention.[/quote]

Are you ready to learn the dark secret of academia?

Most published research is irrelevant or nonsense, not amazing inventions. If you have an amazing invention, you don't nees to publish a peer-reviewed paper about it.

But if someone is willing to lie about something small instead of taking a stand and saying they'd rather give credit where due or not publish in a format they don't like, what else are rhet willing to lie about?

Pines also recently put out fake "scholarship" about rhe Palestinian flag, probably copied from ChatGPT but definitely not citing sources in any way. [/quote]

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