Harvard Penn and MIT

[JerryBaumchen 1,363]

2 hours ago, billvon said:

Along came Hitler who promised to bring back the old Germany, where the German people were free of sanctions, immigrants and the New World Order of a Europe united against them.  He did this by choosing an internal enemy (the Jews) and blaming them for Germany's problems, as well as external enemies (the more liberal European countries.)  That, of course, allowed him to sell himself as the solution to all these threats.  This similiarity is why Trump's language is so similar to Hitler's - same approach, same goals.

Hi Bill,

Since 2015, this is what I have been saying; in different wording.

It was real in the 1930's and it is real now.

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  ETA:  half of all voters believe Trump would be a threat to democracy if he is reelected president

More than half of voters think Trump will act like a dictator if elected: poll | The Hill

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by JerryBaumchen

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1 hour ago, jakee said:

Ok cool - so people are either progressives or monarchists. Which one are you?

Let's see what the other Hitchens has to say: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence"

Some more evidence 

https://intellectualtakeout.org/2017/04/the-progressive-roots-of-fascism/

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1 hour ago, brenthutch said:

Some more evidence 

Which part of that would you call evidence, exactly?

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

17 hours ago, jakee said:

Ok cool - so people are either progressives or monarchists. Which one are you?

Let's see what the other Hitchens has to say: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence"

Evidence?

From him?

Oh puh-leeeeeeeeze.

[olofscience 480]

19 hours ago, jakee said:

Which part of that would you call evidence, exactly?

Anything that anyone has ever written on the internet can be evidence to him...as long as he agrees with it. Opinion pieces, AI-generated articles, whatever.

Even random blogs run by unhinged deniers (one of which who came here with hilarious results).

But respected journals like Nature? Lefty, commie rags. The IEA? Same, except when they report things he likes about coal. Then suddenly they're a respected authority.

Edited December 20, 2023 by olofscience

[kallend 2,027]

Business Insider published two stories last week alleging that Neri Oxman, a prominent former MIT professor and wife of billionaire Bill Ackman, had plagiarized repeatedly in her academic work, including copying from Wikipedia more than a dozen times in her dissertation.

This is the same Bill Ackman who  spent weeks pressuring his alma mater, Harvard University, to oust its president over reports that she had committed plagiarism earlier in her career. At one point, Ackman wrote that a Harvard student who committed “much less” plagiarism than president Gay would be forced out of the university. Gay resigned from the Harvard presidency last week.  

But when Business Insider published plagiarism concerns about his wife’s work, Ackman excoriated the publication, accusing it of unethical journalism, promising to review its writers’ work and predicting that it would “go bankrupt and be liquidated.”  He did not, however, dispute the accuracy of the plagiarism allegation.

 

As a retired academic I dislike plagiarism, but I dislike hypocrisy more.

[JoeWeber 2,720]

3 hours ago, kallend said:

Business Insider published two stories last week alleging that Neri Oxman, a prominent former MIT professor and wife of billionaire Bill Ackman, had plagiarized repeatedly in her academic work, including copying from Wikipedia more than a dozen times in her dissertation.

This is the same Bill Ackman who  spent weeks pressuring his alma mater, Harvard University, to oust its president over reports that she had committed plagiarism earlier in her career. At one point, Ackman wrote that a Harvard student who committed “much less” plagiarism than president Gay would be forced out of the university. Gay resigned from the Harvard presidency last week.  

But when Business Insider published plagiarism concerns about his wife’s work, Ackman excoriated the publication, accusing it of unethical journalism, promising to review its writers’ work and predicting that it would “go bankrupt and be liquidated.”  He did not, however, dispute the accuracy of the plagiarism allegation.

 

As a retired academic I dislike plagiarism, but I dislike hypocrisy more.

I abhor plagiarism as dislikable, as I do hypocrisy, but even more so. But you're academically right, we really need to draw the line somewhere.

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29 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

I abhor plagiarism as dislikable, as I do hypocrisy, but even more so. But you're academically right, we really need to draw the line somewhere.

Art and architecture. That's where.

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17 hours ago, kallend said:

Business Insider published two stories last week alleging that Neri Oxman, a prominent former MIT professor and wife of billionaire Bill Ackman, had plagiarized repeatedly in her academic work, including copying from Wikipedia more than a dozen times in her dissertation.

This is the same Bill Ackman who  spent weeks pressuring his alma mater, Harvard University, to oust its president over reports that she had committed plagiarism earlier in her career. At one point, Ackman wrote that a Harvard student who committed “much less” plagiarism than president Gay would be forced out of the university. Gay resigned from the Harvard presidency last week.  

But when Business Insider published plagiarism concerns about his wife’s work, Ackman excoriated the publication, accusing it of unethical journalism, promising to review its writers’ work and predicting that it would “go bankrupt and be liquidated.”  He did not, however, dispute the accuracy of the plagiarism allegation.

 

As a retired academic I dislike plagiarism, but I dislike hypocrisy more.

One point I made with my students is that their lifetime quota for cheating was one instance.  After that they could do whatever they chose with their time, but it would be somewhere other than my classroom.

The school's policy was slightly more forgiving.

I, too, loathe a double standard.