When you are white and feel entitled.
1%er turns out to be massive fraud once basic scrutiny is applied. Many such cases, I’m sure.
Seriously though, how closely are people looking at these “prestige (read: nepotism) scholars?”
There could be a great many nepo scholarship papers that were not reviewed closely.
It was shown recently that many scientific papers are full of crap and that the entire process of reviewing them is full of loopholes, allowing for a perpetual “I copy from you, you copy from me” type of mutual gratification that has nothing to do with actual science.
The whole system encourages such behavior: you need to publish to get a position, you need to publish to get funded, you need to publish to get exposure, your university and your department need you to publish to climb the rankings… In the end, there just isn’t enough material to justify that many publications or to allow a proper peer-review of all papers
There’s a bit more as well. Corporations have been closing their research labs over several decades and chasing short term profits over longer-term-payoff research. All that risk is passed onto university research labs (and the grad students that actually do the work) and heavily subsidized by the government. There is then little to no incentive for a professor to care about teaching and is rewarded for bringing in grant money. Students incentives are papers (and the prestige that follows) and the machine is born.
Basically, the neoliberal project is moving the risk of research out of corporations and the public pays for it.
What if billionaires are subject to personal and professional review by an independent committee each year around tax time? If they are found at fault, they get a special super tax that year based on their gross total wealth valuation. Financial incentives to at least act like good people might be enough to help curb their shitty anti-everyone-else behavior.
What if poor people stopped trying to think up creative ways to allow billionaires to continue to exist?
They literally exist at your expense (and mine!), stop licking the boot that is literally stomping on your throat.
What if any kind of wealth over a few millions is just taken from them by force.
They don’t deserve, they either stole it or their daddy did.
Good idea, but one of those “60-80% of the population wants it but only 10-20% of the ones who are SUPPOSED TO be representing them would ever dream of it” kind of deals 😮💨
That would be so cool, and that will also never ever ever happen.
Hypocrites gonna hypocrite
Generally Overt Projection at it again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The wife of Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who accused Claudine Gay of being a plagiarist and led calls for her resignation as Harvard president, is now facing allegations of plagiarism herself.
Neri Oxman, a prominent former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has apologized after Business Insider identified multiple instances in which she lifted passages from other scholars’ work without proper attribution in her 2010 dissertation.
In response to Gay’s resignation, Ackman published a 4,000-word post on X – formerly Twitter – in which he criticized diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as well as complained about “racism against white people”.
Gay had faced plagiarism allegations over her 1997 dissertation, but she requested corrections and was cleared of academic misconduct by a three-member independent review board.
Ackman additionally criticized Business Insider and the reporters at the publication who authored the story investigating Oxman, saying he would spearhead plagiarism reviews against the outlet’s staff.
Some consider her a celebrity in the field of architecture and design, and her new company – named Oxman – was in the middle of a soft launch when she issued her apology in response to Business Insider’s reporting.
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Hard truths cut both ways, ser Davos
This is hilarious. Let’s see what else the media digs up on ol’ holier than thou Bill Ackman. Those who live in glass houses…
Those who live in glass houses… shouldn’t throw stones.
Or to get Biblical…
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
hbomberguy strikes again
I thought that many white male academics dissertations would get a bit of attention but a woman? Well I suppose someone has to be first.
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