Business Insider’s top executive and parent company said Sunday they were satisfied with the fairness and accuracy of stories that made plagiarism accusations against a former MIT professor who is married to a prominent critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay.

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  • Arete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    335·
    11 months ago

    Is Bill Ackman’s wife also the dean of a prestigious university? If so she should probably also be investigated. If not I don’t see how this is relevant.

    • floofloofEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      You could argue it’s relevant because it has forced him to show he doesn’t have a principled objection to people getting ahead through plagiarism (it’s fine when it’s his wife), so he must have decided for other reasons to target the president of Harvard using plagiarism as ammunition. It throws light on his character and motives.

      • Arete@lemmy.worldEnglish
        219·
        11 months ago

        I mean ok I guess, although I see a man defending his wife from attacks rather than defending her right to plagiarize. From the article it was 2 quotes in a 300 page dissertation, and they’re not contesting it. The scales of the plagiarism are wildly different, his wife isn’t in academia, and afaik he had no idea about it at the time, so none of this has any bearing on president Gay’s rightful dismissal.