Business Insider busts Neri Oxman's ass for plagiarizing Wikipedia in her PhD

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Business Insider busts Neri Oxman's ass for plagiarizing Wikipedia in her PhD

Unread post by JarrBarr » Thu Jan 11, 2024 12:34 am

Sorry for belatedness

Here's the takedown on Neri Oxman (T-H-L)'s PhD she submitted in 2010.
The other part is one that concerns plagiarism from academic works, mainly omitting quotation marks that should have been there.

Context (archive): Oxman is Bill Ackman (T-H-L)'s wife, and that guy wanted former Harvard president Claudine Gay (T-H-L) fired altogether for similar omissions of quotation marks. Not that he now asks his wife to step down from her tenure at MIT.

I love how he justifies his wife's not giving a fuck about attribution, which absolutely was a thing in 2009:
Bill Ackman wrote:A fun fact:

Our lawyers used the Wayback Machine to check @MIT's plagiarism policy back when Neri wrote her thesis in 2009.

It turns out that MIT's academic integrity handbook did not require citation or even mention Wikipedia until 2013, four years after Neri wrote her dissertation and used Wikipedia for the definitions of 15 words and/or terms. Bear in mind that 2009 was still pretty early days for Wikipedia.
The New Republic has a pretty fair take on that