rachel reeves: plagiarist

[Pickman's model]

oh dear oh dear

she seems to have been caught out plagiarising wikipedia, the financial times and the guardian among other people, for example

Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book

Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied

www.theguardian.com

 

[krtek a houby]

oh dear oh dear

Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book

Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied

www.theguardian.com

for example
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she seems to have been caught out plagiarising wikipedia, the financial times and the guardian among other people

Maybe urban as well

 

[JimW]

Those phrases and paragraphs were just resting in her account of women in economics.

 

[platinumsage]

oh dear oh dear

Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book

Shadow chancellor says she holds her ‘hands up’ FT analysis finds book on female economists has passages that appear to be copied

www.theguardian.com

for example
View attachment 397107

she seems to have been caught out plagiarising wikipedia, the financial times and the guardian among other people

No, she seems to have been caught out plagiarising wikipedia and the guardian among other people; the financial times wrote the article about it that the Guardian are reporting on.

 

[Elpenor]

Also plagiarising her economic policy tbh

 

[DotCommunist]

she lets not others work evade her eyes.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Another unprincipled, dishonest Starmerite. Who'd have guessed?

 

[skyscraper101]

On the surface it looks more a case of sloppy referencing, or non-referencing of a few passages which has been exposed. Technically it is plagiarism but of course they'll spin it as simply an 'error' and try and bury it. Not a good look, but almost seems trivial in the context of liars like Johnson, Hancock etc.

 

[platinumsage]

It's not plagiarism because they were inadvertent mistakes as her publisher has made clear.

Although I'm not sure how cutting and pasting entire paragraphs verbatim can be a case of inadvertent insufficiently comprehensive referencing.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

On the surface it looks more a case of sloppy referencing, or non-referencing of a few passages which has been exposed. Technically it is plagiarism but of course they'll spin it as simply an 'error' and try and bury it. Not a good look, but almost seems trivial in the context of liars like Johnson, Hancock etc.

Not to make everything about the Israel/Palestine war, but she's also claimed that Palestinians don't live under occupation. I think it's fair to say she's not exactly honest.

 

[JimW]

The adaptation of the paragraph from Benn's book makes it look like more of a lift than a quote mysteriously unmarked.

 

[Serge Forward]

She did PPE at Oxford and an MSc at LSE. She would know exactly how not to inadvertently plagiarise.

 

[Cid]

On the surface it looks more a case of sloppy referencing, or non-referencing of a few passages which has been exposed. Technically it is plagiarism but of course they'll spin it as simply an 'error' and try and bury it. Not a good look, but almost seems trivial in the context of liars like Johnson, Hancock etc.

Yeah, I'm sure they were completely intending to include 'as the wikipedia article states...'.

 

[The39thStep]

People accusing her of plagiarism are just Tory enablers

 

[DotCommunist]

if you are going to lift from wiki why not follow through to the sources the entry is based on and quote those.

 

[JimW]

Or, you know, if you can't write a book, don't.

 

[Silas Loom]

A spokesperson told the FT: “We strongly refute the accusation that has been put to us by this newspaper. These were inadvertent mistakes and will be rectified in future reprints.”

It seems almost impossible now to stop journalists from misusing “refute” when they mean deny, rebut or repudiate. Slightly more depressing that the rot has spread to publishers as well.

 

[Sue]

Or, you know, if you can't write a book, don't.

And even if you can write a book, should you?

 

[Petcha]

I don't see the big deal. There's nothing new on this earth. We all plagiarise all the time.

 

[Serge Forward]

I don't see the big deal. There's nothing new on this earth. We all plagiarise all the time.

 

[two sheds]

Surely all plagiarism can be claimed as "inadvertent" until it's found out.

 

[steeplejack]

Twenty years ago she'd have been obliged to resign and at least five years on the backbenches would await if her career in frontline politics was salvage-able at all.

Today, sadly, it will be double down, bluster, false half apology, whataboutery, and hoping this will be overwritten qucikly by other events.

fuck these shameless cunts.

 

[PTK]

A spokesperson told the FT: “We strongly refute the accusation that has been put to us by this newspaper. These were inadvertent mistakes and will be rectified in future reprints.”

It seems almost impossible now to stop journalists from misusing “refute” when they mean deny, rebut or repudiate. Slightly more depressing that the rot has spread to publishers as well.

Yes! Perhaps we should form the Refute Liberation Movement.

 

[PTK]

I don't see the big deal. There's nothing new on this earth. We all plagiarise all the time.

Of course there are new things.

 

[PTK]

"Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...
Only be sure always to call it please, "research"."

 

[Silas Loom]

Yes! Perhaps we should form the Refute Liberation Movement.

I was thinking more along the lines of a deniable assassination squad seconded from the toughest bastards in the Apostrophe Police, given free rein to uphold prescriptive definitions of refute, infer and disinterested by any means necessary. But yeah, perhaps we need an astroturf organisation as well to ensure the public are with us.

 

[petee]

I was thinking more along the lines of a deniable assassination squad seconded from the toughest bastards in the Apostrophe Police, given free rein to uphold prescriptive definitions of refute, infer and disinterested by any means necessary. But yeah, perhaps we need an astroturf organisation as well to ensure the public are with us.

upvoted for using the correct 'rein', when so many don't

 

[JimW]

I was thinking more along the lines of a deniable assassination squad seconded from the toughest bastards in the Apostrophe Police, given free rein to uphold prescriptive definitions of refute, infer and disinterested by any means necessary. But yeah, perhaps we need an astroturf organisation as well to ensure the public are with us.

The loss of disinterested probably bothers me most out of those, it really is an idea that nothing else expresses as neatly AFAICT.

 

[PTK]

The loss of disinterested probably bothers me most out of those, it really is an idea that nothing else expresses as neatly AFAICT.

Yes, disinterested is a very important concept.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

'mistakes'

Rachel Reeves says she 'should have done better' amid plagiarism row

Labour's shadow chancellor admits some sections of her new book "were not properly referenced".

www.bbc.co.uk