Harvard President Accused of Plagiarism

Claudine Gay's Dissertation Contains Unattributed Text Lifted from Other Works

A big scandal is unfolding.

An internet reporter, Christopher Rufo, looked closely at the doctoral dissertation of Claudine Gay, the 30th President of Harvard University.

He found passages of text lifted from other manuscripts but not properly attributed to the original authors.

Harvard has strict policies regarding plagiarism:

Unfortunately, the doctoral thesis authored by Dr. Gay has numerous passages lifted verbatim from other texts:

Even one of the preeminent U.S. political scientists, Carol Swain, is complaining about Dr. Gay borrowing passages from her manuscripts:

Numerous entire paragraphs were lifted from other works:

Prof. Claudine Gay responded:

Does this look like plagiarism to you? It does to me!

Plagiarism in the Contrarian Space

A pet peeve of mine is that my writings are plagiarized a lot. People republish my entire posts, pretend they wrote them, and give me no credit. (I am very thankful to people who repost my articles while giving me proper credit)

After much thinking, early on in 2021, I decided to ignore this problem. Having my ideas spread is good, even if reposts do not refer to me. Spreading the truth is more important than vanity. Nevertheless, I would be happier if my name was mentioned in reposts.

This article was originally published in Igor's Newsletter and is republished here with permission