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QB--found one tricky word early on, and had to rely on BB for the last two. QB yesterday, with ammo and mode as my last finds.

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Quote from: Liquidambar on April 18, 2024, 07:11:31 AM

Quote from: EdnaMode on April 18, 2024, 06:14:06 AMDoes he really think he should earn points because he didn't intend to do it incorrectly? Ugh. I've heard a lot of excuses over the years, but this at least is a new spin on things.

I didn't intend for that bridge I designed to fall down...

I guess Stu is unaware of the road surface on the way to Hell.

Quote from: EdnaMode on April 18, 2024, 06:14:06 AMDoes he really think he should earn points because he didn't intend to do it incorrectly? Ugh. I've heard a lot of excuses over the years, but this at least is a new spin on things.

I didn't intend for that bridge I designed to fall down...

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Quote from: spork on April 16, 2024, 02:20:05 AMDipak Panigrahy, Harvard Medical School, submitted 500 pages of plagiarized word salad as expert testimony in a federal class action lawsuit. The judge rejected it.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/15/hms-professor-plagiarized-report/ 

More egg on Harvard's face.

Sounds like it is not plagiarism in the truest sense (he cited his sources), but a hack job in which he cut-n-pasted large sections of other people's real scientific work without proper identification, so it looked like valid original research, and cherry-picking what he found to reach a solution convenient to his client.

I've wondered why out court system allows this version of paid "expert opinion" in the courtroom.

By that definition, I could write a paper listing 3 sources, properly cite one quotation from each source, and then cut-and-paste everything else to my heart's content and argue it's "not plagiarism in the truest sense".

Not buying it.

Okay, Marshy.  I appreciate your expert opinion.

Morning!

QBwSBB, last word edema. LB wrung-goldfish.

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Hello Dr. Mode,

I understand that there is a standard for [deletes boring engineering standard stuff, which Stu got incorrect on his assignment]. I am by no means arguing with the standard just the fact of the circumstances in this case. I am in no way trying to be rude by continuing this argument. I just think the penalty on my assignment is unfair due to the fact that it was my whole intention to do it correctly.

Thank you,

Stu

At least he said thank you. Does he really think he should earn points because he didn't intend to do it incorrectly? Ugh. I've heard a lot of excuses over the years, but this at least is a new spin on things.

My reply was:

Stu,

The standards exist for a reason, please refer back to the assignment information. The points deducted for making that common mistake were indicated on the grading rubric, and on the assignment itself, as well as discussed at length in class before you started work. Your grade, as posted, is correct.

See you in class,

Dr. Mode

Quote from: marshwiggle on April 17, 2024, 07:13:15 AM

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QuoteNPR Suspends Editor Whose Essay Criticized the Broadcaster
Uri Berliner, a senior business editor at NPR, said the public radio network's liberal bias had tainted its coverage of important stories.

Uri Berliner's article in The Free Press. Toward the end of the article, Berliner writes:

QuoteAnd this, I believe, is the most damaging development at NPR: the absence of viewpoint diversity.

Isn't that the point of DEI... to make sure there IS viewpoint diversity?

Not remotely; it's to make sure that the "viewpoint" presented reflects "diversity" of people expressing it, where "diversity" is based on identity categories, (other than straight, white, male, christian, etc.). Do you really think that, in the name of DEI, hiring will be done to ensure that there are pro-life, conservatives on staff?

Apparently if one is applying to work for Lara Trump.....

Quote from: Wahoo Redux on April 17, 2024, 08:06:15 PM

Quote from: apl68 on April 16, 2024, 07:43:33 AM

Quote from: spork on April 16, 2024, 02:20:05 AMDipak Panigrahy, Harvard Medical School, submitted 500 pages of plagiarized word salad as expert testimony in a federal class action lawsuit. The judge rejected it.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/15/hms-professor-plagiarized-report/ 

More egg on Harvard's face.

Sounds like it is not plagiarism in the truest sense (he cited his sources), but a hack job in which he cut-n-pasted large sections of other people's real scientific work without proper identification, so it looked like valid original research, and cherry-picking what he found to reach a solution convenient to his client.

I've wondered why out court system allows this version of paid "expert opinion" in the courtroom.

By that definition, I could write a paper listing 3 sources, properly cite one quotation from each source, and then cut-and-paste everything else to my heart's content and argue it's "not plagiarism in the truest sense".

Not buying it.

Quote from: secundem_artem on April 17, 2024, 05:40:10 PM

Quote from: marshwiggle on April 17, 2024, 01:05:28 PMYork University faculty group recommends defining support of Israel as 'racism'

QuoteA York University faculty committee has recommended that the school henceforth define any acknowledgement of Israel's existence as evidence of "anti-Palestinian racism."

According to an April 5 "recommendations report" leaked to National Post, an official committee within York's Department of Politics has proposed that any defence of Israel be viewed as "anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab."

An odd addition:

Quote"The struggle for Palestinian self-determination will support the liberation of all humans and non-humans from colonial oppression," it reads.

U Toronto grad here.  Sounds about right for York. 

Yeah, that was my take as well.

Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation, Leslie T. Chang. A worthy successor to her 2008 book on China, Factory Girls.

On a similar topic, I can recommend The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler (husband of the preceding author), which I read last year, and Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East by David Kirkpatrick, which I'll probably re-read this summer.