By HatetheSwamp October 14, 2024 1:20 pm Category: Crime (0.0 from 0 votes)
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And, not very clever plagiarism.
Vice President Kamala Harris is under scrutiny due to allegations of plagiarism in a book that she coauthored in 2009.
According to a new report by Dr. Stefan Weber, Austrian "plagiarism hunter," Harris and co-author Joan O'C Hamilton had 27 "fragments of plagiarism" in the book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer.
In the 49-page report, Weber and his team also allege that the Democratic presidential nominee and her coauthor copied and pasted from a Wikipedia article for the book.
Weber, a professor in Austria, accused Harris of reproducing verbatim language from sources such as news articles and studies in his report.
"Kamala Harris fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number. The self-promotional content from Goodwill Industries was copied verbatim without citing the source (Goodwill Industries was her 'primary partner' on in [sic] the 'Back on Track' program)," Weber wrote in the analysis.
"In many other instances, even when a source was cited with a footnote, the text was directly copied and pasted without using quotation marks. Quotation marks would have been the most transparent and honest approach, also in non-academic books..."
"After copying from the Wikipedia article, she continues by copying from the PDF linked in the Wikipedia article's first reference. Although she acknowledges at the end of the book that she took examples of community courts from that report (without providing the URL), the copied sections are presented as if they were her own words. The word-for-word copying still requires quotation marks to maintain proper attribution," Weber wrote.
Is this a big deal?
You know d@ngwell. If this was about Trump, Curt would be all over this. D@ngwell!
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And, not very clever plagiarism. 