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2024-01-07 16:47:03 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 32A2929AB0B0E5A004F3F2DA5AC8A0055B9BA38EA1A17908C8F82BDACEEFFDB6
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Neri Oxman plagiarized portions of her Ph.D. dissertation. https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-ackman-wife-neri-oxman-mit-dissertation-plagiarism-2024-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1 MIT's academic integrity handbook clearly states that failure to use quotation marks (even if the source is cited) is plagiarism. https://web.archive.org/web/20090217073446/http://web.mit.edu/academicintegrity/plagiarism/quoting.html There is precedent for revoking academic degrees in cases of plagiarism. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5259274 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/slideshows/high-profile-people-whose-degrees-were-revoked?slide=7 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/slideshows/high-profile-people-whose-degrees-were-revoked?slide=8 https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/slideshows/high-profile-people-whose-degrees-were-revoked?slide=11
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