In similiar news to ‘is this the first time I’ve seen this’, my son was marking papers and came across a paragraph a student had in their submission that looked familier. Because he’s just read the research paper they’d plagiarized from that week lol.
My favorite is when students plagiarize me.
You should be flattered. It was an homage.
That’s be awesome!
when my son was marking papers, I could hear him muttering and grumbling under his breath all the time lol.
Someone contacted me once about a paper of mine people were plagiarizing (for various classes), which I found kind of an odd choice.
Mainly because I have an extremely strong writing voice (when I’m not “writing anonymously” for business purposes..and getting edited, etc.) If you copy text from me, it is so obviously me writing, and sounds like me, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Some people put up the pic of the plane w/ the recorded shots (for planes that survived) for this, but a lot of cheaters are not terribly slick at their cheating. The ones who are more sophisticated could actually put in the effort to just write their damn papers to begin with.
The awesome part is I stop right there, enter a zero into the gradebook, and move on to the next submission.
Agree.
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Well, practice makes perfect.
Like, say, tRump.
Well, you can’t stop a fraudster from frauding. They’ll keep on doing it, even in a countersuit.
(They can’t POSSIBLY catch me at it!)
[136] Metadata Falsificada: The Cover-Up File in
Gino v. Harvard
Francesca Gino’s lawsuit against Harvard is still ongoing. (The trial, if it gets to that, is scheduled for December 2026) While the case drags on, both sides keep filing documents with the court, and most of those documents are publicly available (htm). This post is about a recent filing: Document #222 (pdf).
The Cover-Up File
On October 1st, 2023, Gino claimed on her website francesca-v-harvard.org that she had found an Excel file that Harvard should have used in its investigation but didn’t. As she put it, “our unequivocal conclusion is that [Harvard Business School] used the wrong dataset in its investigation . . . The correct dataset . . . is 100% consistent with the [published results]” (htm) [1].
Note: in this post, text appearing in [brackets] within quotations indicates that the quote has been edited for clarity.Harvard countered that the file “was fabricated by Professor Gino and placed on her laptop” [2].
Harvard refers to this file as the “Cover-Up File”, and I will follow suit.
plus additional table:
that’s not #222, per se – this is some of the original fraud:
On July 27, 2010, the RA re-sent the original dataset (I guess attached with other stuff in email), unaltered… after the date which Gino sent heavily altered dataset to co-authors.
So… it’s pretty clear that Gino was the person altering the data.