Thursday, January 04, 2024
Plagiarism
Harvard's President quit because of an expose that accused her of plagiarism. Conservative critics organized a campaign to expose her and succeeded. Her defenders have been reduced to saying that her plagiarism wasn't so bad that she deserved a death penalty. But, it doesn't wash. The damage to her reputation was such that continuing in her job would have been hypocritical and she understood that. So, she stepped down, which was the proper thing to do. Her demise is a warning to other university presidents that they will be put under a microscope so they had better be careful in their writings to give credit where it is due. If you are going to condemn plagiarism, you must be free of it yourself.
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