When the controversy over Dr. Gay emerged, I asked one of my research assistants to begin running Dr. Gay’s papers and some of the former Harvard presidents’ papers through several commercially available plagiarism checkers. I wanted to see first-hand what this technology identified as “plagiarism.” The first paper that we tested was a paper that Dr. Summers, Harvard’s most-published president, published in 1982: “The Non-Adjustment of Nominal Interest Rates: A Study of the Fisher Effect,” NBER Working Paper, №836. When we ran this paper through the Grammarly plagiarism checker, the AI technology lit up like a Christmas tree, suggesting that Dr. Summers had plagiarized Irving Fisher’s book The Theory of Interest (New York: MacMillan, 1930). When my assistant and I dug deeper into what the software was picking up, we found that Professor Summers had reproduced two large block quotes from Fisher’s book at the bottom of page 1 and the top of page 2 of his paper. While correctly attributes the first block quote on page 1 of the paper, he forgets to attribute the second block quote at the top of page 2, so the AI program says that he has plagiarized Dr. Fisher. Now, anyone with common sense should be able to look at Dr. Summers’ papers and see that he made a human error — or what the young journalists at the Crimson would call sloppy — but did not commit plagiarism. I assert that it should have been just as easy for the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers to use their common sense, aided by the testimony of so many experts from political science saying that her mistakes did not amount to plagiarism, to push back on the nonsense claims about Dr. Gay’s work.
Your post means nothing to me. I have read how she stole entire paragraphs from others. Again, your post means nothing. If she was indeed innocent of plagiarism she would have stood her ground and fought like the dickens to save her job. She did not. She is either a weakling or realized she had been exposed as a fraud. Which one?
Dumb F. She received thousands of email, letters and calls to her and her office from you and your daddy calling her a dead N word bitc*.
You clearly didn't read what she wrote about why she resigned. All the BS was s a major distraction on the campus. She didn't want that.
If she was guilty of anything then explain Einstein, how she is still going to teach at Harvard?
She is NOT a standout scholar. She is a fraud. If I am hiring for my university and see that she stole vast amounts of material from others, then her resume goes into the trash. There are many well-credentialed people out there who earned their Ph. Ds legitimately. "Dr." Gay (I am chuckling when I say that because she did nothing to deserve it) is a fraud.
You are one dumb lying MF.
She is a premier scholar by any measure. How about you actually read the facts. Her critics...including your dumb ass....aren't close to what she has accomplished.
"Hiring for your university"....like you have ever hired anyone for anything other than mounting your TV or cutting grass.
You are a lying jealous clown. Dr. Gay is thousands times better in her field that you would be in a 100 lifetimes in yours. Stop embarrassing yourself.
Your posts are just you insulting me. If you can't do better than that I (like if you really had a chance to get a job with me) would throw your resume in the trash within one minute. Your insults are very revealing about your intellect. If you can't win the argument, attack with insults. You are a fraud too.
Your boy Christopher Rufo lied about his degree as if it were a real Harvard degree. He got a master's degree through the extension program, which lets anyone in. He had to change what it said about his education on the Manhattan Institute after the New Republic reported on this bit of deceit.
It is disturbing to see so much support for lack of educational integrity. We should hold our institutions of higher learning to a very lofty standard. Educating and preparing the youth for the professional world is extremely important and should be treated as such. The shortcuts Gay and others take without repercussions cheapens the effort of those who earned their degrees.
I know that my committee would have thrown me out if I had turned in a thesis such as Gay’s. They certainly would not have stood by me. However, they did have educational integrity and took seriously the responsibility of upholding the high standards of my institution.
It proves you are lying sack of sh*t, just like all the others who sent her deaths threats and called her a lying dumb N-word b****h
Please don't attribute something like that to me. I am merely commenting on her credentials of lack of. Those nasty comments are coming out of your mouth. So much anger.
Sally Vix. Apparently everyone but you know that racists wanted Dr. Gay removed because she was a black female President of Harvard University.
Chris Rufo and others conceived this. First off, no Harvard students called for the genocide of Jews or threatened Jewish students on Harvard's campus. POS Stefanik just made up s*** and called them to Congress. Every university president in America would have answered her dumb a** questions the same.
This is what happened. Regardless of what lies you repeat about Dr. Gay.
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This really was a team effort that involved three primary points of leverage. First was the narrative leverage, and this was done primarily by me, Christopher Brunet and Aaron Sibarium. Second was the financial leverage, which was led by Bill Ackman and other Harvard donors. And finally, there was the political leverage which was really led by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s masterful performance with Claudine Gay at her hearings. When you put those three elements together — narrative, financial and political pressure — and you squeeze hard enough, you see the results that we got today, which was the resignation of America’s most powerful academic leader.
Your boy Christopher Rufo lied about his degree as if it were a real Harvard degree. He got a master's degree through the extension program, which lets anyone in. He had to change what it said about his education on the Manhattan Institute after the New Republic reported on this bit of deceit.
Where was the deceit? Did he earn his master's degree? If he did, fine. If he stole it, then he should be fired. If he lied on his resume, then get rid of him. If he did not, then he can stay. Is it really so hard?
It is disturbing to see so much support for lack of educational integrity. We should hold our institutions of higher learning to a very lofty standard. Educating and preparing the youth for the professional world is extremely important and should be treated as such. The shortcuts Gay and others take without repercussions cheapens the effort of those who earned their degrees.
I know that my committee would have thrown me out if I had turned in a thesis such as Gay’s. They certainly would not have stood by me. However, they did have educational integrity and took seriously the responsibility of upholding the high standards of my institution.
What is disturbing is that you don't read and think that you actually know about her thesis, which she asked to be reviewed. It did not show plagiarism....but you continue to lie and think it does. There is a reason why you don't have a Ph.D and review other Ph.D candidates work.
Your boy Christopher Rufo lied about his degree as if it were a real Harvard degree. He got a master's degree through the extension program, which lets anyone in. He had to change what it said about his education on the Manhattan Institute after the New Republic reported on this bit of deceit.
Where was the deceit? Did he earn his master's degree? If he did, fine. If he stole it, then he should be fired. If he lied on his resume, then get rid of him. If he did not, then he can stay. Is it really so hard?
Since you have repeatedly lied, can we get rid of you?
It is disturbing to see so much support for lack of educational integrity. We should hold our institutions of higher learning to a very lofty standard. Educating and preparing the youth for the professional world is extremely important and should be treated as such. The shortcuts Gay and others take without repercussions cheapens the effort of those who earned their degrees.
I know that my committee would have thrown me out if I had turned in a thesis such as Gay’s. They certainly would not have stood by me. However, they did have educational integrity and took seriously the responsibility of upholding the high standards of my institution.
What is disturbing is that you don't read and think that you actually know about her thesis, which she asked to be reviewed. It did not show plagiarism....but you continue to lie and think it does. There is a reason why you don't have a Ph.D and review other Ph.D candidates work.
I don’t think her thesis (and several other submissions) contained plagiarism. I know they do.
And there’s not just one reason I didn’t pursue a doctorate. 😉
Where was the deceit? Did he earn his master's degree? If he did, fine. If he stole it, then he should be fired. If he lied on his resume, then get rid of him. If he did not, then he can stay. Is it really so hard?
Since you have repeatedly lied, can we get rid of you?
Your post means nothing to me. I have read how she stole entire paragraphs from others. Again, your post means nothing. If she was indeed innocent of plagiarism she would have stood her ground and fought like the dickens to save her job. She did not. She is either a weakling or realized she had been exposed as a fraud. Which one?
Dumb F. She received thousands of email, letters and calls to her and her office from you and your daddy calling her a dead N word bitc*.
You clearly didn't read what she wrote about why she resigned. All the BS was s a major distraction on the campus. She didn't want that.
If she was guilty of anything then explain Einstein, how she is still going to teach at Harvard?
Please don't attribute something like that to me. I am merely commenting on her credentials of lack of. Those nasty comments are coming out of your mouth. So much anger.
Sally Vix. Apparently everyone but you know that racists wanted Dr. Gay removed because she was a black female President of Harvard University.
Chris Rufo and others conceived this. First off, no Harvard students called for the genocide of Jews or threatened Jewish students on Harvard's campus. POS Stefanik just made up s*** and called them to Congress. Every university president in America would have answered her dumb a** questions the same.
This is what happened. Regardless of what lies you repeat about Dr. Gay.
*******
This really was a team effort that involved three primary points of leverage. First was the narrative leverage, and this was done primarily by me, Christopher Brunet and Aaron Sibarium. Second was the financial leverage, which was led by Bill Ackman and other Harvard donors. And finally, there was the political leverage which was really led by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s masterful performance with Claudine Gay at her hearings. When you put those three elements together — narrative, financial and political pressure — and you squeeze hard enough, you see the results that we got today, which was the resignation of America’s most powerful academic leader.
What everyone knows is that Gay wasn't FIRED due to racism, she was HIRED due to racism.
Gay's predicament reminds me of the Ward Churchill scandal after 9/11. This professor was fired from Boulder not because he called the victims of 9//11 "little Eichmanns." but for plagarism. His poorly thought out statement invited scrunity from his poltiical foes and since he was an art professor, it became clear that his paintings were copies. He had already ticked off the Native American art community.
Despite having the best lawyers money can buy, Gay's Congressional answers were vague and reflected a typical oppressor/oppressed stance. Not a fireable offense, but one that non PC opponents (and everyday Americans who are angry about the current hostage status of US citizens) found distasteful.
Given the publicity, her opponents dug into her work, which is thin for a Harvard President.
Could the alleged plagiarism could be a symptom of more than sloppiness? Some scientists have wondered why she didn’t just write her own dry science prose. She may not understand the statistical issues involved so she cut and pasted other's insight in these areas.
Her 2001 article on black population density and white voter turnout has a major flaw and I am shocked that it passed peer review. It says a lot about the peer review process.
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Bill Ackman used plagiarism charges in pushing to remove Harvard's president, Claudine Gay. But new reporting shows his wife, Neri Oxman, also plagiarized.
Gay's predicament reminds me of the Ward Churchill scandal after 9/11. This professor was fired from Boulder not because he called the victims of 9//11 "little Eichmanns." but for plagarism. His poorly thought out statement invited scrunity from his poltiical foes and since he was an art professor, it became clear that his paintings were copies. He had already ticked off the Native American art community.
Despite having the best lawyers money can buy, Gay's Congressional answers were vague and reflected a typical oppressor/oppressed stance. Not a fireable offense, but one that non PC opponents (and everyday Americans who are angry about the current hostage status of US citizens) found distasteful.
Given the publicity, her opponents dug into her work, which is thin for a Harvard President.
Could the alleged plagiarism could be a symptom of more than sloppiness? Some scientists have wondered why she didn’t just write her own dry science prose. She may not understand the statistical issues involved so she cut and pasted other's insight in these areas.
Her 2001 article on black population density and white voter turnout has a major flaw and I am shocked that it passed peer review. It says a lot about the peer review process.
They used the pretext of plagiarism to cancel Churchill just as they have done with Gay.
Gay's predicament reminds me of the Ward Churchill scandal after 9/11. This professor was fired from Boulder not because he called the victims of 9//11 "little Eichmanns." but for plagarism. His poorly thought out statement invited scrunity from his poltiical foes and since he was an art professor, it became clear that his paintings were copies. He had already ticked off the Native American art community.
Despite having the best lawyers money can buy, Gay's Congressional answers were vague and reflected a typical oppressor/oppressed stance. Not a fireable offense, but one that non PC opponents (and everyday Americans who are angry about the current hostage status of US citizens) found distasteful.
Given the publicity, her opponents dug into her work, which is thin for a Harvard President.
Could the alleged plagiarism could be a symptom of more than sloppiness? Some scientists have wondered why she didn’t just write her own dry science prose. She may not understand the statistical issues involved so she cut and pasted other's insight in these areas.
Her 2001 article on black population density and white voter turnout has a major flaw and I am shocked that it passed peer review. It says a lot about the peer review process.
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Nailing Gay for plagiarism was like convicting Al Capone for tax evasion - sure, Capone was probably guilty of much worse but tax evasion was the easiest thing to prove. Gay's handling of the anti-Israel protesters - who were filmed harassing and intimidating Jewish students, calling for genocide and blaming Israel for Hamas murdering, raping and kidnapping innocent civilians - as well as her subsequent inability to effectively condemn that behavior on her campus in front of congress speaks is the real reason why so many turned against her. It's not racism, as all the idiotic and manipulative liberals like to default to, even though Liz Magill received the same backlash that Gay did but chose to resign faster. The harassment that many Jewish college students faced not only from their peers but also their professors shows the moral decay and bigotry that's been allowed to fester in upper education (not that events from the last 8 years haven't provided enough proof either).
Gay's predicament reminds me of the Ward Churchill scandal after 9/11. This professor was fired from Boulder not because he called the victims of 9//11 "little Eichmanns." but for plagarism. His poorly thought out statement invited scrunity from his poltiical foes and since he was an art professor, it became clear that his paintings were copies. He had already ticked off the Native American art community.
Despite having the best lawyers money can buy, Gay's Congressional answers were vague and reflected a typical oppressor/oppressed stance. Not a fireable offense, but one that non PC opponents (and everyday Americans who are angry about the current hostage status of US citizens) found distasteful.
Given the publicity, her opponents dug into her work, which is thin for a Harvard President.
Could the alleged plagiarism could be a symptom of more than sloppiness? Some scientists have wondered why she didn’t just write her own dry science prose. She may not understand the statistical issues involved so she cut and pasted other's insight in these areas.
Her 2001 article on black population density and white voter turnout has a major flaw and I am shocked that it passed peer review. It says a lot about the peer review process.
^^^
Nailing Gay for plagiarism was like convicting Al Capone for tax evasion - sure, Capone was probably guilty of much worse but tax evasion was the easiest thing to prove. Gay's handling of the anti-Israel protesters - who were filmed harassing and intimidating Jewish students, calling for genocide and blaming Israel for Hamas murdering, raping and kidnapping innocent civilians - as well as her subsequent inability to effectively condemn that behavior on her campus in front of congress speaks is the real reason why so many turned against her. It's not racism, as all the idiotic and manipulative liberals like to default to, even though Liz Magill received the same backlash that Gay did but chose to resign faster. The harassment that many Jewish college students faced not only from their peers but also their professors shows the moral decay and bigotry that's been allowed to fester in upper education (not that events from the last 8 years haven't provided enough proof either).
Nailing Gay for plagiarism was like convicting Al Capone for tax evasion - sure, Capone was probably guilty of much worse but tax evasion was the easiest thing to prove. Gay's handling of the anti-Israel protesters - who were filmed harassing and intimidating Jewish students, calling for genocide and blaming Israel for Hamas murdering, raping and kidnapping innocent civilians - as well as her subsequent inability to effectively condemn that behavior on her campus in front of congress speaks is the real reason why so many turned against her. It's not racism, as all the idiotic and manipulative liberals like to default to, even though Liz Magill received the same backlash that Gay did but chose to resign faster. The harassment that many Jewish college students faced not only from their peers but also their professors shows the moral decay and bigotry that's been allowed to fester in upper education (not that events from the last 8 years haven't provided enough proof either).
How dare anyone oppose Israel's genocide in Gaza.
It's hard to oppose something that doesn't exist. Sorry but the Muslim victim card is not going to work with me.
Dumb F. She received thousands of email, letters and calls to her and her office from you and your daddy calling her a dead N word bitc*.
Eh, they all say that when they screw up - I may have done bad but you should see all the death threats I got, none of which I’m going to show you and I will also name no names despite living in a culture that loves the call-out. Journalists say this, academics say this, and so on. Usually women but sometimes men make the claim too. I don’t believe anybody who says they got threatened unless they post at least a bit of proof, it’s far too easy to just say it’s happening and in today’s culture people are far too eager to believe that someone is a target of “hate,” especially if they’ve got some high-ranking identifiers on the progressive stack.
