Columbia President Nemat Shafik Accused of Plagiarism
“This is wholesale intellectual theft, not subtle plagiarism.”
Columbia University President Nemat Shafik has been under fire for over a week since she’s allowed anti-Israel dumbs to set up camp on the lawn, taunt Jewish students, and make the rest of the term hybrid or virtual.
Like what seems every other Ivy League president…Shafik faces allegations of plagiarism.
Shafik got a B.A. in economics and politics from UMASS-Amherst, an M.S. in economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in economics from Oxford.
Nemat Shafik – @Columbia Prez only has 1 well-cited publication in her life, in Oxford Econ Papers 1994.
This paper is lifted almost entirely from a 1992 report coauthored with consultant not credited in the publication.
This is wholesale intellectual theft, not subtle plagiarism pic.twitter.com/ttqN3C7hFm— Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ) April 26, 2024
This is not a close call. Table 1s are the same. Fig 1s are the same. Massive overlap in text.
She stole the junior author’s intellectual property and simply removed his name from published version.
If he contributed enough to be an author in 1992, how can she delete him in 94? pic.twitter.com/eAnURB0qXK— Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ) April 26, 2024
I’m an academic, and this is NOT okay to do. You cannot remove an author and claim intellectual property for yourself.
When a grad student tried this, we referred him to Dean for disciplinary hearings.
And this is worse because of power imbalance – she removed a *junior* person pic.twitter.com/E3RMDhbccY— Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ) April 26, 2024
The stolen paper has been cited 2395 times.
Her next most cited paper: 115 cites – not very presidential.
This is the *only* publication of note in her portfolio.You’ll find both the coauthored report and the OEP pub at this link – check for yourselfhttps://t.co/is5msh9yMe
— Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ) April 26, 2024
The journal should investigate this. here are the names of the editorial board members. Would appreciate it if folks can tag or email them this thread:https://t.co/jcw9ImkGDr pic.twitter.com/G0cQI5WdaL
— Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ) April 26, 2024
The other author is thanked in a footnote in OEP for their “research assistance” This in some ways is even worse. You are now undermining them even further in their authorship contribution to the earlier policy report – a background paper for the WDR.https://t.co/xXI18rtoT2
— Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (@mushfiq_econ) April 26, 2024
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BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Her next appearance before congress will be hilarious.
The rare sequel to be better than the original.
IF she appears before Congress again: 1) the Democrats will of course protect her from hostile questioning because she is doing what she was hired to do, and 2) the GOPe (including the Party leadership such as it is) will also because they will not stand against the Left in anything,
Subotai Bahadur
It is ok when the left does it. Heck, Joe Biden is a proven plagiarist.
If the university board supports a incompetent president, campus chaos, and shrinking donations, perhaps it will mind a scholarly pariah. One would think that there might be a limit.
Leftists set no limits for themselves.
Original thinkers must pay their fair share! Why should they keep their work and intellectual property to themselves?!?!
That has long been big businesses attitude, intellectual property should be free for them to take. Many have the BLM attitude.
Heh.
Another DEI/CRT fraud going down in disgrace like claudine gay of harvard? Will she get lifetime job security at $900k per year as teacher?
Fearless Leader Comrade Pervert Pedo Biden paved the way for the rest of his minions to follow. Nothing to see here; move along.
It was only a matter time….like it is for all of them. Her ilk haven’t had an original thought for a century.
It used to be called ‘fake it ’til you make it’.
That used to be what kept doctorates few and far between – the fact the dissertation was supposed to have an original thought or advance the science or contribute something new.
When demands for doctorates exceed supply, however, the market must respond somehow.
She has, however, become the first to break plagiarism’s Color Barrier!
Too bad she doesn’t identify as male, she could have had a twofer!
I read the first page of the oxford press paper … It sounds as if it was written by a 12 year old. It’s really pathetic. I can’t say if the rest of the paper is just as bad (since I don’t have access to it) but it seems to me like your usual, laughable joke of a “research” paper in one of the soft sciences.
And this paper was cited almost 2400 times?? I’d hate to see the sh*t papers that cited it. They were probably mostly written in crayon … or on sketching paper – which seems to be how most academic, non-science papers are done.
It sounds as if it was written by a 12 year old.
So, she cribbed it from Kamala? Or Michelle 0bama?
So, she stole something that sounds like it was written by a 12-year-old?
“I don’t mind a parasite. I object to a cut rate one.”(*) — From Casablanca(**)
(*) See the quotation marks? First step to not plagiarism.
(**) See the ref? Second step to not plagiarism.
Also, this is casual commenting on a blog. Nor required to meet standards for either academic publications or legal citations.
I didn’t find it laughable at all. As for the citations by others, how were they to know it was plagiarized? I never deep dived articles and papers while doing research in college for authenticity as I assumed, everyone assumed, the peer review done by journals would take care of that. We have since learned that peer review is a joke and outside of the hard sciences like math I would be very skeptical of anything published especially in a soft science. Economics uses a great deal of advanced math and you can’t fake it. You can disagree with the paper itself but math is correct or it is not.
C’mon, people. The role of a University president is to oversee the looting of donors and the swindling of tuition payments from students (even if it means sadling them with horrendous debt). Having a person who has committed academic highway robbery is a plus! “Situational integrity” should be listed as a job requirement.
It’s part of affirmative action for women.
Does the Ivy League have some sort of warehouse where they store plagiarizing profs? Is it some kind of requirement for their female presidents that they can’t produce quality academic work of their own?
I worked my ass off for my PhD (and my MD!), and my entire dissertation was scanned multiple times by academic integrity software that was so thorough it pointed out where I forgot to add in an extra quotation mark for one specific item. I corrected it and it was re-run again in its entirety. I got so sick of having to rerun it every time there was a review date due.
These women don’t seem to have had anyone even checking anything! My Gawd….was Bonzo the Chimp their Dissertation Advisor?
Their Dissertation advisor and entire committee was likely directed or just agreed among themselves to increase the number of women the graduated by any means necessary.
They had a quota to hit!
She is a thief.
Why don’t the original authors raise hell about this stuff?
It’s dead easy to prove and reporting it obviously has impact. Are they so devoted to their agendas that they let these criminals get away with this stuff for the good of the cause?
I believe only one has. But silence may be lucrative for an academic in a tenure-track position…
To quote that great American philosopher — Gomer Pyle: “Surprise. Surprise. Surprise.
Shazam!
Has plagiarism become a requirement for getting hired as an Ivy League president?
Well, color me derivative and call me President, clearly it has. I suppose it’s part of the standard rubric: to get elevated, they have to have something on you. Keeps you in line, and all that.
What is it about these Ivy League university Presidents and administrators? Is plagiarism now a job requirement for those positions? Who knew!
I propose this experiment. Every commentator here on LI must provide their real name and their real professional school, college, community college, and high school that they attended. Then we can all search the Internet for any allegations of plagiarism in their work.
I would do the same myself, since I am a graduate of college, graduate school, and law school. But I will only do so if all of the rest of the commentators here do the same. People like Professor Jacobson would have no problem with this, but I would be curious about all the commentators here who excoriate every person they politically disagree with as derelict because they never cited a source. Why not turn the lens back on the commentators here to see who is without blame? That would be interesting. He who casts the first stone ….
What’s in it for me? A paycheck? Give me $900K/year and I’ll happily provide all that, plus I’ll throw in a sex tape and my most recent proctoscope video.
Seriously?
Only the pure, credentialed, or purely credentialed can speak?
Maybe the value of what someone brings is in what they bring, not the branding on who brings it?
No, you may not have my name. I prefer not to get doxxed. Nor does commenting for fun on a web site make me a “fair game” public figure.
When you can’t attack the point, attack the person. That’s some pretty impressive fallacy stacking, actually:
— No, a commentator does not have to meet the same standards as the commented on. Here or elsewhere. I don’t recall the Latin off the top of my head for this sub-variant of ad hominem.
— Formal credentials are hardly the only kind of qualification, Indeed “credentialed”: and “qualified” don’t necessarily go together: that’s the point of the Big-Name U President issue. But, you knew that.
— People have lots of reasons not to expose that kind of bio profiling on Teh Interwebz. Convenient for someone making the “cough up or you are invalid” argument.
There’s more, but inventorying more would be boring. The rhetoric is slimy too. “I would be curious…” Oh, you mean “… there are those…?” As for casting stones, you’re not that preacher. Not even close.
I’ve been published go look me up if you want. It’s not easy to get published when you don’t have popular research I should know. Mine was primarily in terrorism. And no I never plagiarized but then I’m not a fancy Ivy League professor.
Here’s one of mine , go ahead you can be the 2nd person to read it. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/act/8/
Sooo in JR World…. The standards for being an Ivy League President or department head are exactly the same as posting on an internet website.🤡 It’s interesting and telling that you want to protect lying, thieving, unethical people….. are you telling us that’s who you align with?
I just want your comment on menthol cigarette bans searchable. You’d be canceled quickly by your best friends.
Here is the complete list of my publications:
You posted a fake quote from Powerline, JR. Why would any of us believe you?
That sounds like a good idea, provided we limit it to those who claim an outsized share of of the world’s power, prestige and wealth on the basis of their academic excellence.
FJB
FJR
I have no worries as the several papers and magazine articles I have had published are correct in the citations and footnotes.
Will I do it for some rando on an Internet sight? Your kidding, right?
Another member of the Didn’t Earn It fraternity
From current news you’d think that plagiarism was in the finest traditions of Academia. All the cool kids are doing
It seems a pattern is starting to emerge here… these affirmative action hires sure do plagiarize a lot. Almost as if they’re mentally weak and need a crutch. Curious.
I’m confused. How did she get to be president without a swastika tattoo? Isn’t that a requirement?
You guys just don’t get it.
When you have a world revolution to put over, niceties like honesty and fairness are handicaps, not virtues.
These academic mind-rapists are moving The Struggle forward “by any means necessary”.
Duh.
FJB
The inevitable result of a checkbox scholar; not a scholar at all.