Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations | The Guardian
Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations | The Guardian
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Wife of financier who called for Harvard head’s exit faces plagiarism allegations
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