while you were carefully researching using properly cited academic publications, Neri Oxman studied The Blade

DMoulipien.bsky.socialJan 11, 2024 9:23pm

Someone on twitter noted that neri oxman's dissertation contains an apparently irrelevant digression about samurai swords, so I looked it up, and … (a) this sentence is a stunner in its own right (b) this sentence is also plagiarized

That compliments this thread on how the entire writeup was kinda b.s. bsky.app/profile/raf....

She changed the spelling of "duel." Expect to hear from Ackman's lawyers.

Look, Harvard's plagiarism resources didn't say anything about HistoryNet in 2008, OK?

'Studied' is being asked to carry a heavy load in the above sentence!

CTRL-C | CTRL-V am now A Knight of Bushido

Everything I know about her and her idiot husband I’ve leaned against my will

Errors in her thesis are really irrelevant - every thesis has them. Or they would be irrelevant IF HER UTTER TIT OF A HUSBAND HADNT THROWN SUCH A CRUSADER SHITFIT ABOUT CITATIONS. Hilariously though, Oxman not only copied text but did it so badly she misspelled “duel”. Dual standards I guess.

oh god that prose sucks

Man. She made that sentence so much worse.

Ackerman now says "that a dissertation of such low quality could pass muster at MIT is only further evidence of the corruption and low standards there and further proof that the president must go."