Nando161 on Nostr: #plagiarism is also like the ur-bogeyman of #academia but if you spend any time ...
#plagiarism is also like the ur-bogeyman of #academia but if you spend any time around successful prolific professors you realise that their success is contingent upon them stealing, without credit, the work of their RAs and graduate students for most of their #careers. and you can say those guys are bad actors, that they’re doing academia incorrectly, but their paychecks, tenure status, awards, and publishing record would disagree with you on that. the ultimate conclusion isn’t that plagiarism is good, but that it is ubiquitous, that it is the name of the game, that punishment for plagiarism is a discretionary disciplinary mechanism more than it is a system for rooting out unethical behaviour. it is difficult to overstate the daily mundane instance of plagiarism you encounter at #university because tenured professors have extraordinary amounts of power and vanishingly few checks against their behaviour
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