The actual report addresses the fact that access to college is heavily tied to parental income in the US. The report does not cite inadequate K-12 public education as a reason for income inequality in the US.  U.S. Public Schools Are Not Failing. They’re Among the Best in the World

It’d be interesting to learn whether hybrid males are/can be fertile. The one wholphin in captivity (a false killer whale/bottlenose cross) is female; female hybrids can generally reproduce regardless of chromosomal or genetic differences. Males in most crossings turn out sterile, though exceptions have gone on to…

Is it ironic that someone plagiarized an article about shoplifting?

Not that I planned on having any sympathy for the writer, but this certainly ended any I might have had.

According to her MANY blogs and websites that are all the first results that pop up on google and are somehow not on private despite getting called out for plagiarism, her parents own a bookstore.

So, basically, Albrecht thought she could read the Herwees article, write another article based off it with no citation, doing no original work or interviews, and that is writing? I’m pretty sure it is not that easy, Albrecht...

Shirley Jackson’s story “The Lottery,” first published in The New Yorker in 1948,

Seek out her twitter, you’ll have even less sympathy. She’s a white girl endlessly tweeting about social injustice and openly shaming her Dad for not giving her more money for college, yet she steals from a PoC woman and doesn’t even TRY to attribute her till caught.

Yeah, I was a TA in grad school and was always surprised how many students thought that simply rearranging the sentence structure/changing a couple of words meant that it was no longer plagiarism. That’s not how it works! We were explicitly taught in undergrad and grad school what plagiarism was and the consequences.…

“This was the first article I’ve ever written for a print publication. I didn’t know the proper protocol for citation in this type of writing, and as a result, I failed to credit Tasbeeh properly, which I now regret terribly and am trying to fix.”

This is such bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. You don’t have to…

Just came here to say this. I teach research and writing at a university and students come into my class with no idea what does and doesn’t constitute plagiarism. Most of it they pick up by the end of the course, but I have the most difficult time with getting them to understand that examples like the “respectable…

Over my 10-ish years as an editor at various print publications (yes, they still exist!), I can’t tell you how many times I have had to reprimand writers - writers with decades of experience, writers who have been editors in previous roles, writers who are doctors and teachers and celebrated members of society- for…

This is an escalation of a behavioral pattern I see often with the university students I teach. I’m not sure what failed at the university and high school levels, but students are indeed genuinely confused about what constitutes plagiarism. Those passages Rich selected re: ‘respectable women’ are a great example -…

Glad to see someone (Stoller) doing the right thing and owning it without a bunch of lying excuse-making BS.

To me the “failure to cite sources” is a feeble attempt at downplaying the deed. Like “I didn’t lift the entire article wholesale, I only failed to properly attribute some quotes”. Of course that doesn’t pass the smell test when entire sections are copied if not word for word, at least thought for thought. It is absolu…

It’s not even really an excuse, it’s an admission. There’s something Trumpian about describing an offense and then using that description as your defense. Like, “I’m not a drug dealer, I just give people illegal narcotics in exchange for money.” Huh??

Failing to cite a direct quote from someone else’s source is maybe almost, if you squint, sorta semi-understandable in this era of clickbait and internet blog-as-journalism. But copying the actual text of the article is plagiarism, and any human being should know better.

Stoller’s skeleton staff shocked by stolen story, submit succinct statement: “Sorry!”

Wow is Herwees handling this better than I would have.  

Their Indian wedding ceremony is going to last longer then they have been dating.