{"id":288,"date":"2005-03-12T07:28:58","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T11:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=288"},"modified":"2005-03-12T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T11:28:58","slug":"and-now-the-plagiarism-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"And now, the plagiarism accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/10727.html\">Ralph Luker<\/a> for pointing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7156384\/\">new allegations that Ward Churchill plagiarized work by a Canadian writer<\/a>; according to the report, when she refused to have her work in one of his edited works appear in a second publication, he wrote something under his name that was remarkably similar.  This may be part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_15_3540066,00.html\">a larger pattern of sloppy scholarship<\/a>, if journalists&#8217; reports are accurate.<br \/>\nAnd therein lies the crux of the matter: what has Ward Churchill&#8217;s behavior been like as an academic? In my experience, good journalists &#8220;get it right&#8221; about 70-80 percent of the time.  After all, if Phil Graham was correct that news was the first draft of history, that means there&#8217;s plenty of rewriting to be done.  So we take the allegations as printed in the media with a grain of salt.  With claims of fraud, it&#8217;s sometimes tough to find the truth, and as I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000213.html\">written before<\/a>, academics can lie about each other and requires some care in investigation.  Plagiarism is much easier to discern:  compare the material.  Sloppy footnoting is one thing, but stealing words is another.<br \/>\nIf Churchill has come close to or crossed the line over to plagiarism, I suspect he&#8217;ll quickly agree to a buy-out now that these allegations exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Ralph Luker for pointing out new allegations that Ward Churchill plagiarized work by a Canadian writer; according to the report, when she refused to have her work in one of his edited works appear in a second publication, he wrote something under his name that was remarkably similar. This may be part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-4E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}