After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation

After Claudine Gay was ousted amid accusations of plagiarism, Neri Oxman was accused of copying from Wikipedia in dissertation

The wife of Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire who accused Claudine Gay of being a plagiarist and led calls for her resignation as Harvard president, is now facing allegations of plagiarism herself.

Neri Oxman, a prominent former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has apologized after Business Insider identified multiple instances in which she lifted passages from other scholars’ work without proper attribution in her 2010 dissertation. She also pledged to review the primary sources and request the necessary corrections.

Business Insider on Thursday initially labeled four passages of Oxman’s dissertation as plagiarized – without any attribution – from Wikipedia entries. But by Friday, the outlet had found at least 15 such passages, a turn of events that was similar to that which led to Gay’s ouster from the Harvard presidency.

Business Insider also identified research papers written by Oxman that contained plagiarism, including a 2007 paper – titled Get Real: Towards Performance Driven Computational Geometry – and a 2011 paper named Variable Property Rapid Prototyping.

  • MxM111@kbin.social
    837·
    10 months ago

    Well, she is not Harvard president - a position that requires highest integrity. She is launching some company (according to the article), so, it is not as important. However, the irony is huge here.

      • merc
        4·
        10 months ago

        When has she ever involved herself in this? It’s her husband, and she’s probably not happy that his attack has resulted in this exposure of her plagiarism.

      • MxM111@kbin.social
        526·
        10 months ago

        She would be hypocrite if she though that she herself is acceptable for the same position. Which she might do, and in that case she would be a hypocrite, but we do not know for sure.

          • merc
            5·
            10 months ago

            She never criticized anyone, she’s probably pretty pissed her husband went on this crusade and it ended up wrecking her reputation too.

            But, his billions of dollars will cushion the blow.

              • mriormro@lemmy.world
                5·
                10 months ago

                What? Neri Oxman and her husband are two different people who can hold opposing views. I understand the situation and why her husband is being criticized for his hypocrisy.

                The person I was responding to literally wrote that she was the hypocrite for making statements against Claudine Gay, which is not the truth.