This is Bill Ackman's wife. Bill forgot to dig a second grave when he was digging Claudine Gay's.
Bill is bigly mad. He's gonna get everyone in education back.
https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1
Psst. Bill is gonna go after MIT's leadership (Kornbluth).
"But after BI had emailed its findings to Oxman, Ackman posted a response on X in which he promised to conduct plagiarism reviews of MIT's leadership"
He pledged to conduct a thorough review of MIT president Sally Kornbluth, all MIT faculty, and board members and other officers of the MIT Corporation for evidence of plagiarism, using MIT's plagiarism standards
@Cosmichomicide I read that as well and it is as if "My wife got caught but it's all the president of MIT's fault!"
He also said his wife's was fine because she apologized and was gonna fix it. Which is exactly what Gay did.
Wonder what the difference could be?
@Cosmichomicide Agreed and we all know what that is!
This is coming as well. A lot of this dropped when the Epstein Files did. MIT was in the dead center of that mess.
Kornbluth wasn't there. Oxman was.
Here's the Boston Globe article (paywalled, sadly - I'll check for links). I added a screenshot, tho. Oxman was directly involved with the Epstein grants.
Poor Brad Pitt. He really should have stayed with Jennifer, LOL! (He was rumored to be dating Neri when this story broke - she married Ackman in 2019)
@Cosmichomicide well he did dodge a bullet there 😂
What's a real shame is her work is brilliant.
Here's me defending Ackman's wife:
Her using a definition of weft does not materially impact anything. Weft is weft. Her subsequent observations are the original work. Any missed mechanics can be corrected if noticed.
Academics spend a lot of time chasing grants. Sometimes taking the money and distancing from the source is a choice between shutting down a project or getting it over the line. Not right, but reality.
Here's me not defending her - it may be legal, it may be commonly done, but a year after you take money from a convicted pedophile maybe don't do art shots of kids with death masks?
Don't get me wrong, these are beautiful and I love the concept, but um... wow, that's some poor judgement there.
@Cosmichomicide Agreed