Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nomination for the presidential election, has been accused of plagiarizing some pieces of her 2009 text” Smart on Murder: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer”.
On Monday, liberal activist and advocate Christopher Rufo posted a summary of her book’s” Smart on Crime” in a substack with the headline” Kamala Harris’s Plagiarism Problem: The evil leader appears to have airlifted sections of it.”
Rufo funds “plagiarism warrior” Stefan Weber for identifying “more than a hundred ‘ violent copying bits ‘” in her 248-page text, which she co-authored.
” Some of the passages] Weber ] highlighted appear to contain minor transgressions—reproducing small sections of text, insufficient paraphrasing—but others seem to reflect more serious infractions, similar in severity to those found in Harvard president Claudine Gay’s doctoral thesis”, Rufo wrote, adding Harris did not respond to a request for comment.
There is definitely a violation of standards around, Rufo wrote, from “verbatim speech from an uncited NBC News review” to “extensive sections from a John Jay College of Criminal Justice hit launch” to “extensive sections from a weak Wikipedia site.”
He continued,” Harris and her co-author duplicated lengthy lines almost verbatim without proper reference and without quotation signs, which is plagiarism in the text.” ” …Of training, Harris, like many other common statistics, does have relied wholly on a writer to review her book. But that is not circumstantial: Harris, at the end of the day, put her brand on the support”.
Harris is just the latest academician and various prominent academics to be accused of plagiarism.
Most recently, a complaint filed with the University of Washington alleged that Professor Robin DiAngelo, a light critical race theory, plagiarized majority scientists and others, generally within her research, The College Fix reported last month.
She was cleared of any crime in late-September.
In May, a diversity, equity, and inclusion executive faced allegations of theft as also, in this case the head of the Cultural North Star system at the UCLA School of Medicine.
Further: AP claims plagiarism is a “new traditional weapon” against higher education
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