(VINnews) — In an apparent act of revenge, Business Insider has accused the Israeli born wife of Bill Ackman of plagiarism in her 2010 thesis. However others are suggesting that the claims are overblown or false, and she is being targeted because her husband is outspoken against antisemitism.
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The outlet reported that Neri Oxman, a former MIT professor, architect, and academic, “stole sentences and whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, other scholars, and technical documents in her academic writing”.
Oxman is married to billionaire Ackman, who has been vocal in calling for antisemitic university leaders to step down, including Claudine Gay, who resigned in disgrace due to her own plagiarism allegations.
Ackman has labeled plagiarism a “very serious” offense.
At first BI discovered four places in which Oxman used content from others’ work in her thesis. However three of those appeared innocuous, as they were passages where she should have used quotation marks but did not, whereas the fourth included content quoted from an author without any citation.
In a post on X, Oxman wrote a lengthy response to the claims, including: “I deeply apologize to Mattheck for inadvertently not citing him when I paraphrased the above sentence.”
I was forwarded an email this morning from a reporter at Business Insider who noted that there are four paragraphs in my 330-page PhD dissertation: “Material-based Design Computation,” which I completed at @MIT in 2010,https://t.co/6LE1O4FiiL
where I omitted quotation marks…
— Neri Oxman (@NeriOxman) January 4, 2024
However after that tweet, BI claims it found multiple excerpts from her 2010 MIT PhD dissertation that appeared to come from Wikipedia, yet she allegedly did not attribute them to another author. (Images below).
On Saturday night, Ackman posted a tweet that appeared to suggest that Business Insider is targeting his wife because of his political views and outcries against universities. He also suggested that under this level of scrutiny, every academic would be unfairly accused of plagiarism.
“He tweeted: “Last night, no one at @MIT had a good night’s sleep.
Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp could be heard around the campus.
Why? Well, every faculty member knows that once their work is targeted by AI, they will be outed. No body of written work in academia can survive the power of AI searching for missing quotation marks, failures to paraphrase appropriately, and/or the failure to properly credit the work of others.
But it wasn’t just the MIT faculty that did not sleep last night. The @Harvard faculty, its governing board members, and its administrative leadership did not sleep either. Because why would we stop at MIT?
Don’t we have to do a deep dive into academic integrity at Harvard as well? What about Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth? You get the point.”
Last night, no one at @MIT had a good night’s sleep.
Yesterday evening, shortly after I posted that we were launching a plagiarism review of all current MIT faculty, President Kornbluth, members of MIT’s administration, and its board, I am sure that an audible collective gasp…
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) January 7, 2024
The BI article is so ridiculous, it makes BI into a laughingstock. After all its blather, they found one sentence – in a 330 page thesis – that she didn’t give credit on the spot. The good news is that Ackman announced he’s going after BI reporters to check their work, current and previous, for plagiarism. Sounds like fun!
Scum media who will do anything to deflect from the corrupt lying progressive left they shill for.
That’s okay. The left can continue to bite the hand that feeds them, and see what happens.
Why didn’t the BI wite an article when it was going on with gay? Well maybe because one is a svartza and the other is Jewish??
except she isn’t a hamas advocating president of a Nazi university, so who gives a f
If you shine the light of day, on every thesis, and every dissertation ever offered, you will not find even one that hasn’t borrowed from another without attribution. However, how many of those were authored by Presidents of a prestigious (and I use the term loosely) university, how many of them are written by somebody who gives tacit , if not implicit approval to open bigotry by a student body that goes on to threaten violence against a group of people they don’t agree with , how many of them sat in front of a congressional hearing and obfuscated and repeated the same defense of their dereliction, with the same canned response, prepared for them by their legal counsel. Bill Aackman’s wife is in no position, to influence the next generation of voters and leaders.
Hate this kind of technology. Its not always accurate. In high school I had to write a current events paper. (Every report we wrote we had to submit it to a special website before handing in to to show that it was not copyrighted etc. after submitting my paper it came back that I forged a bunch of the paper. It showed exactly where I had put quotations and where I took certain sentences because it was a current event paper. I almost flunked 12th grade and would have had to repeat again. I had almost no proof to show that I really wrote it until I remembered that I had worked on the the paper with one of the resource teachers, who had come to my aid to vouch that I had written the whole paper on my own. So whatever they say I didn’t care less because they are trying to play cat and dog now….
The problem is that Bill never went after MIT yet. They are the last one standing . It’s Jewish machshafia president must go. And we must dox her and yell wherever she goes. Make her life miserable. Of course it depends on context
I suppose most theses have parts that are lifted from other sources. Modern technology make them easier to spot.