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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So are all these academics at the top of their game just rank cheaters? I’m feeling sort of stupid for not going on for a PhD now, which I didn’t do because I was wary of the amount of work involved. It would have been a lot easier if I’d realized I just had to copy other people’s work. [/quote]

Not unless you're from a rich family or a favorite of the university administration. A regular PhD candidate getting caught plagiarizing is kicked out of school and bad mouthed during reference checks for eternity.[/quote]

Right but it looks like a lot of them aren’t caught, and the cheating seems to be endemic. I’m now wondering how many of these folks who are (for instance) well-known academic authors and speakers are basically just cheating grifters. The percentage hit of senior academics who cheated appears to be quite high. [/quote]

Now that plagiarism checking has been weaponized by Bill Ackman and others, expect more academics to be outed. Ackman has already stated in a recent tweet that the MIT president and the entire MIT faculty are next. (He’s pissed about the attacks on his wife and apparently wants to exact his revenge in this manner).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-05/ackman-wants-plagiarism-checks-on-mit-faculty-after-wife-accused[/quote]

I actually think it’s probably a good thing to figure out just how many of these academics cheated their way into their jobs. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I’m genuinely shocked at how widespread this seems to be. I had always thought of academia as being very strictly against cheating, given what they do to students who cheat. But we’ve now had two presidents (!!) of two major schools (Harvard and Stanford!) resign for plagiarism and data falsification. Are all academics cheating? How widespread is this?[/quote]

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