Neil Gorsuch - Plagiarist

[vlad_hombre]

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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO.

The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal. In several other instances in that book and an academic article published in 2000, Gorsuch borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citing them.

Gorsuch's writings borrow from other authors

 

[bodecea]

That kind of thing gets a student kicked out of college.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Well GOSH! If Politico says so ...

 

[Lewdog]

Yep it isn't like the old days anymore where a student or a person could just copy what someone else says and get away with it. All the new software out there on the net you can put in a long phrase and it will show you if it is plagiarized or not.

 

[vlad_hombre]

That kind of thing gets a student kicked out of college.

Couldn't have happened to a more arrogant douchebag.

 

[easyt65]

'copied the structure and language'...

What the hell is that? Elaborate, please. While you are at it, since you are declaring Gorsuch to be 'guilty', please provide the link / evidence to show the lack of a footnote was not a publisher's mistake.

 

[Lewdog]

All they will do is blame it on his editor and then go in and add citations to the book. Nothing will come of it.

 

[easyt65]

That kind of thing gets a student kicked out of college.

It gets you an 'F' on a paper. It doesn't get you kicked out of college. Good Gawd....

Perhaps if it were PROVEN he intentionally stole the material with the intent to claim it as his own, versus a mistake, then it would / could violate an ethics code that could result in such an action. To my knowledge no such thing has been proven.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

He's still going to be confirmed

 

[cnelsen]

Whoops ...

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO.

The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal. In several other instances in that book and an academic article published in 2000, Gorsuch borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citing them.

Gorsuch's writings borrow from other authors

Fake news.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

'copied the structure and language'...

What the hell is that? Elaborate, please. While you are at it, since you are declaring Gorsuch to be 'guilty', please provide the link / evidence to show the lack of a footnote was not a publisher's mistake.

That makes it sound like someone is calling him a plagiarist because he wrote something in English without crediting others for also writing in English.

 

[Lewdog]

That kind of thing gets a student kicked out of college.

It gets you an 'F' on a paper. It doesn't get you kicked out of college. Good Gawd....

Perhaps if it were PROVEN he intentionally stole the material with the intent to claim it as his own, versus a mistake, then it would / could violate an ethics code that could result in such an action. To my knowledge no such thing has been proven.

No, that's not true... Universities are strict as hell these days. We gt a warning in every course about plagiarism and that it may lead to being expelled.

 

[Auld Phart]

Whoops ...

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO.

The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal. In several other instances in that book and an academic article published in 2000, Gorsuch borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citing them.

Gorsuch's writings borrow from other authors

OMG

 

[vlad_hombre]

'copied the structure and language'...

What the hell is that? .

Plagiarism.

You're welcome.

 

[easyt65]

No, that's not true... Universities are strict as hell these days. We gt a warning in every course about plagiarism and that it may lead to being expelled.

Only if you're a Conservative or if you are white ('white privilege').

 

[irosie91]

didn't they come up with the same crap on Martin Luther King? (memory??-----maybe not-----some important person. I think that what seems like plagiarism
can be just unintentional------stuff left in the back of one's mind.

 

[dannyboys]

No, that's not true... Universities are strict as hell these days. We gt a warning in every course about plagiarism and that it may lead to being expelled.

Only if you're a Conservative or if you are white ('white privilege').

Plagiarism spelled backwards is Joe Biden.

 

[Lewdog]

No, that's not true... Universities are strict as hell these days. We gt a warning in every course about plagiarism and that it may lead to being expelled.

Only if you're a Conservative or if you are white ('white privilege').

Plagiarism spelled backwards is Joe Biden.

Melania Trump speeches you mean?

 

[Bob Blaylock]

It gets better…

SCANDAL: John Bresnahan and Burgess Everett at The Politico Appear to Have Plagiarized From BuzzFeed

John Bresnahan and Burgess Everett, two reporters at Politico, appear to have copied the work of BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner. In a Politico story that peddles easily refuted Democrat attacks on Neil Gorsuch, Bresnahan and Everitt write:

The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal. In several other instances in that book and an academic article published in 2000, Gorsuch borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citing them.​

But earlier, BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner covered the same topic and wrote:

The section at issue in his book, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, is a brief one: It is a summary of the facts and ruling in the 1982 case of Baby Doe, a baby born in Indiana with Down syndrome. It takes up only two paragraphs and seven endnotes in a book that covers more than 300 pages, including endnotes. The book came out of his 2004 Doctor of Philosophy dissertation from the University of Oxford.​

Ruh-roh. Not good. It looks like Politico relied on the Democrats’ talking point sheets they sent over earlier to both BuzzFeed and Politico and did not cite BuzzFeed, which published first.

Oh wait! That is exactly what Neil Gorsuch did. In fact, as if subconsciously admitting their story is bulls**t, the Politico reporters include this:

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Yet a review of the documents provided to POLITICO shows Gorsuch parroting other writers’ prose and sourcing without citing them. Instead, Gorsuch often acknowledges the primary sources cited by those writers.

In the most striking example, Gorsuch, in his book, appears to duplicate sentences from an Indiana Law Journal article written by Abigail Lawlis Kuzma without attributing her. Instead, he uses the same sources that Kuzma used: A 1982 Indiana court ruling that was later sealed, a well-known pediatrics textbook, “Rudolph’s Pediatrics,” and a 1983 article in the Bloomington Sunday Herald.​

What?! Gorsuch provides citations to primary sources that might have provided the original wording used by someone he did not cite?! How dare he!!

This is such a crap story. The attack on Gorsuch is that he did his own research and cited the original, primary sources, instead of just copying what someone else did.

The reason this is a big story in the press is that this is what the press does. Normally, BuzzFeed runs a story and then Politico runs a story citing BuzzFeed because they are too damn lazy to do their own work.

The outrage here is really that Gorsuch is not a lazy Washington millennial reporter with no sense of history, but actually put in the time to do his own research and cite original sources.​

So, the scumbags at Politico, in trying to accuse Mr. Gorsuch of plagiarism, committed themselves the very offense of which they were falsely accusing Mr. Gorsuch; and they included material in their own plagiarized report which refutes the accusation that they were trying to make.

 

[JakeStarkey]

It's real news to you post-truthers on the far right, so you can fuck off.

However, the question is knowing whether it was intentional or sloppy. The latter gets an F, the former goes to the department chair then to the college dean for disciplinary actionary.