of new york times Vice President Kamala Harris admitted Monday that she plagiarized multiple passages from her 2009 book. smart about crimeHowever, he claimed that the copying was “not serious” and was only a small part of the entire book.
The plagiarism was exposed by conservative journalist Christopher Rufo, based on research by Dr. Stefan Weber, Austria's world-renowned plagiarism expert.
of times reported that the plagiarism was true, but insisted it was “not serious.'' of times article The article is titled “Conservative activist steals passage from Harris' book” and has the subheading: “The Democratic presidential candidate copied five short passages from a 2009 book about crime, according to a report by Christopher Rufo. Plagiarism experts said the lapse was not serious.”
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The text Rufo found problematic on the Substack platform was about 65,000 words, or about 500 words in a 200-page book. Harris, a Democratic presidential candidate, co-wrote the book with another author while she was San Francisco's district attorney.
In its review of the book, The New York Times revealed that the text in question does not incorporate any ideas or thoughts from another author, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism. Instead, the text copies descriptions of programs and statistics that appear elsewhere.
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Jonathan Bailey, a plagiarism consultant in New Orleans; plagiarism todaysaid on Monday that its initial reaction to Rufo's claims was that the error was not serious given the size of the document.
of times He shifted the focus from Mr. Harris to Mr. Rufo and implied that Mr. Rufo was a racist. Rufo is part of a loose coalition of conservative writers and activists who have spent the past year trying to expose plagiarism among academics, many of them Black academics working in the field of diversity and inclusion. It was. … Some scholars … have characterized the campaign as racist. ”
Earlier Monday, Breitbart News' John Nolte wrote, “Corporate media will almost certainly ignore this scandal or flick the wrist and try to 'fact-check' it as a 'Republican-made controversy.' He predicted, “Dew.''
Similarly, Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) predicted that the media would defend Harris, saying she had only copied portions of her book. .
Harris' plagiarism clearly included quotations from Wikipedia, which is not considered a reliable source.
of times generally report Omitting or deleting attribution of text quoted from other sources will be treated as “plagiarism” rather than simply “error.”
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