Source: NYT > Education
Article note: Everyone whose old publications are run through a modern checker is going to get got, because academics have been min-maxing their publication throughput the greatest degree they can get away with for decades, and the standards have changed. Plus, some concepts like self plagiarism in the form of reusing your own background material in multiple places being wrong are new and kind of bullshit.
Neri Oxman, a former M.I.T. professor, is accused of copying from Wikipedia. Her husband, William Ackman, vowed to check the work of the entire M.I.T. faculty.
