Last week, another group of Harvard faculty members was exposed as a possible plagiarist.
By refusing to acknowledge that Christina Cross, an assistant professor of sociology, may have wrongly passed off the work of others as her own, or that Harvard University may be intellectually bankrupt, Cross’s colleagues are They screamed speciesism and circled the wagon.
simple background
Cross, an affiliated faculty member and assistant professor of sociology in Harvard’s Department of African and African American Studies, is the latest racial bigot to be exposed for possible plagiarism at Harvard.
Claudine Gay resigned from her position in disgrace on January 2nd after nearly 50 plagiarism charges were filed against her, alleging that nearly half of her published work was related to her doctoral thesis.
Later that month,
Affirmative action expert Sherry Ann Charleston, the university’s chief DEI officer, was faced with a complaint identifying 40 instances of alleged plagiarism in two of her academic works.
In February, Harvard University Extension School administrator Shirley R. Green was accused of 42 counts of plagiarism in a 2008 University of Michigan paper.
Blaze News previously reported that a complaint against Cross was filed this month with Harvard University’s Office of Research Integrity, stating that her work contained “verbatim plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, uncited paraphrasing, and references to information from other sources.” It was reported that it was claimed to contain multiple examples of plagiarism, including “unquoted quotations.”
Manhattan Institute Fellow Christopher Rufo
be familiar with The complaint to City Journal alleges that Cross “cites sources from or includes quotes from papers by Stacey Bosick and Paula Fomby (Paula Fomby was her doctoral dissertation supervisor). He pointed out that he was accused of plagiarizing the text almost word for word, without including any verbatim words. Her 2019 paper.
Cross also allegedly plagiarized Bosick and Fomby’s entire text elsewhere in the paper, as well as plagiarizing other people’s ideas without attribution.
“Professor of plagiarism!”
Mr. Fomby, who served on Cross’s dissertation committee, along with dozens of sociologists from various academic institutions,
released Thursday’s statement said it “expresses deep concern about false allegations of research misconduct.” [sic]. ”
“It is not just that Dr. Cross’ work is not plagiarized,” the statement continued. “Rather, her description of large public datasets in this standardized manner is simply good research practice and helps ensure replicability and transparency.”
The Manhattan Institute researcher responded, “I can’t believe the professor plagiarized!”
On Monday, Harvard University’s sociology department released a similar report.
statement Protect the cross.
“We are deeply disturbed by the false allegations of plagiarism against our colleague Christina Kross. The allegations are ridiculous,” the statement said. “The most serious-sounding claims involve descriptions of widely used datasets, and Dr. Cross describes their characteristics in the terms used by the people who assembled the datasets, as accurately as possible. It’s explained in words.”
The Department of Sociology further suggested that Ms. Cross’s race may have been a motive for the accusation.
“We believe these false claims are particularly troubling in the context of a series of attacks against Black women in academia that clearly have no place for Black women at our universities. ” the statement continued. “We are fortunate that [Cross] And she has our full and unadulterated support. ”
The department appears to have accepted the desperate line of defense that Claudine Gay and later other leftists resorted to when they left: that efforts to combat plagiarism are “fueled by racial animus.” .
Blaze News previously noted that Heba Gowaid, a left-leaning associate professor of sociology at Hunter College, State University of New York, similarly suggested that Cross’s scholarship was reviewed “simply because she is black.” did.
Gowaid added: “This is KKK level shit.”
Don Moynihan, a professor at Georgetown University, argued that Rufo and others’ scrutiny of Cross and other academics is “an example of the post-George Floyd political backlash.”
Marcy CarlsonA sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison defended Cross, amplifying Moynihan’s experiments in narrative curation. write“Describing a public dataset from a famous country in similar terms to another paper is not plagiarism!”
“They are openly defending their own written policy violations,” Rufo responded.
The Journal of Marriage and Family, an academic journal published by the National Council on Family Relations, also focused on the racial framework of the plagiarism charges against Cross.
Tweet“We condemn these vile attacks aimed at undermining and intimidating academics who focus on race and racism, especially Black women academics. We are valued colleagues. I support and support Dr. Cross.”
Cross happened to be a member of the magazine.
editorial committee.
Rufo was holding another sharp object.
response: “Academic journals openly defended plagiarism, claiming that exposing academic misconduct by ‘black women’ was tantamount to ‘intimidating scholars who focus on race.’ They replaced integrity with intersectionality. Standards are gone. ”
Rufo also refuted suggestions of racism.
Tweet“For the record, I also asked my sources to review the academic work of white scholars in Harvard’s grievance department, and so far no plagiarism has been found.”
“Although this is not a large-scale study, it is certainly possible that lower academic standards in ‘diversity and inclusion’ recruitment may be correlated with plagiarism and other academic deficiencies. , in some ways it’s about the definition of DEI.’Employing,’ Rufo added.
While DEI critics lambasted so-called academics who bent over backwards to defend potential plagiarism, Cross thanked them.
cross
tweeted On Monday, he wrote, “Dear friends, thank you for your continued support. Moments like this show how deeply you are loved and cherished. I continue to do what I’m supposed to do and… I’m going to do the best job I can for the world.” Too often, it’s about families whose stories are not told. ”
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