Cambridges Aushängeschild für Diversität im Plagiatsstreit
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/cambridge-diversity-poster-boy-plagiarism-134658961.html
Von Odd-Help6890
Cambridges Aushängeschild für Diversität im Plagiatsstreit
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/cambridge-diversity-poster-boy-plagiarism-134658961.html
Von Odd-Help6890
21 Kommentare
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If a normal Cambridge professor was caught plagiarizing the story wouldn’t get out of the academic community, but make the professor black and autistic and insinuate that he’s a DEI hire (not true), now you’ve got a story for the main page
Yep. Typical playbook. Make claims against The Professor without any proof but put the burden of proof on The Professor whilst those who make the accusation provide zero proof.
Are people saying that due to his skin colour there’s no way he’s plagiarised someone else’s work.
Ironically he’s been accused by left wing academics who are now being called racist.
Plagiarism aside, I was shocked at the poor quality of his thesis.
It takes 350 pages to argue that student teachers learn and improve more effectively through reciprocal peer mentoring than through purely hierarchical expert-to-novice mentoring.
The only empirical proof it contains are a series of interviews with four participants of peer mentoring, each studying PE teaching at one university. There is no comparison group, no independent measurement of teaching improvement and no serious way to separate the effect of peer mentoring from ordinary development during teacher training.
I honestly encourage you all to take a look, it almost reads like satire. Bereft of hard evidence, making the same points again and again in academic-ese.
This can’t be typical, can it?!
Genuinely so unfair when you think how hard it is for anyone else to get those positions.
He is a proven plagiarist and yet Cambridge still defend him!
This article has a lot of interesting detail: https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge
> In 2010, the professor ran 30 marathons in 35 days to raise money for Shelter and the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice, and he has spoken about running 300 miles in three days and 600 miles in six days, only 50 miles short of the world record for ultra-distance running over six days.
No one thought to question this? Answering my own question, I’m guessing they did but realised it wouldn’t be worth the hassle.
I use grammarly on stuff I write for publication, and I’ve started running the AI/plgiarism detector. Mainly out of interest, but also just in case what I write might sound like AI.
It quite often flags up plagiarism. It is usually from some obscure publication that I have never heard of, let alone read. And it is often a sequence of three words. The publication uses the same three words as me, but in a totally different context, about something different, meaning something different.
With the amount of text that AI models churn through, I don’t think it is possible to find a sequence of three words that have never, ever been used before. I guess the plagiarism detector ignores text that has been used a million times before, and only flags up phrases that are rarely used.
Once in a while it does flag up something that I suppose could look more like genuine plagiarism. But it absolutely isn’t, because it is some document that I’ve never seen before that point.
However, if it is very similar long paragraphs and it happens a lot, then there might be a case to answer.
This dude also claims to have ran 600 miles in 6 days..
I told my friend who is a single parent to a non verbal autistic boy about this guy and showed the article in the guardian as she started loosing hope that her boy will ever speak. I feel so bad now for giving her false hope as this whole story might’ve been made up.
As someone who studied at LJMU
I wouldn’t be surprised if the lecturers let him pass without checking
LJMU from my experience was very relaxed and imo a waste of money
(Yes I have a grudge against my time there)
I find the whole ‘diversity poster boy’ an odd thing to tack onto it. The guy’s a plagiarist, there’s no denying that, you only need to look at the comparisons. But bringing his race into it opens another can of worms that seems to be being taken advantage of by the usual bad faith actors.
Pretty much all educational ‚research‘ is subjective claptrap written up in pseudo intellectual academise.
He is a bluffer/chancer doing what chancers do – the university are corrupt and contemptible, cretins who felt that positive discrimination would hide their own privilege and inadequacy. The most disgusting thing is that there are many, many people of any colour, religion, ethnicity who should/could have been appointed to this role without any discrimination – just recognition.
A guy with two GCSEs, a BA and a PhD from pretty terrible universities can end up as a Cambridge Prof?
I think looking at the politicians we have, Cambridge and Oxford don’t always produce quality graduates.
I did my PhD in physics at a Russell group uni. One PhD candidate would get postdocs (mostly female, to whom he was rude) to do his work and explicitly asked how much of a thesis could be plagiarised. He’s now a Doctor, and will probably get an academic post in his home country at some point. After my PhD I found a researcher submitting a fellowship application replicating ideas and explicit phrasing my own successful application and stating me as a collaborator without my consent. I complained to the university that hosted him and they brushed it off with factually inaccurate statements and blatant denial. I don’t know any of the details of this case, but there is often not much academic interest in preventing plagiarism, it’s embarrassing to acknowledge it so easier to go head in sand…
Aside from a mental Goliath he ran 5 marathons in 5 days, or was it 6 in 6 days. Entirely plausible of he’s incredibly fit.
But why has any reference changed to 6 marathons in 12 days once the national press started looking?
Let the Man stand on his own merits.
The west simply has to get back to meritocracy. We should try to get everyone starting from the same point- better schools and resources for children from disadvantaged groups/areas. When hiring for jobs though we should just hire the best person, no quotas or special treatment for anyone.
Universities are destroying themselves with EDI, reverse discrimination and including non-meritocratic selection criteria for academic posts. This mentality is a cancer which is causing western universities to fast become a joke worldwide. This is why one reason why international students are increasingly staying in their own countries for their degrees rather than going to the west.
Source: I work in academia.
How much of the problem is DEI, and how much of the problem is that the bar for education research is subterranean? I doubt DEI would have helped him in a more rigorous field. Framing the problem as DEI just make people more suspicious of systems and strategies for people who are genuinely competent but disadvantaged to get a leg up.