What always stood out to me was that when it was science reporting, the journalist might get it wrong in communicating about it, but they never allowed the reader to think they had done the science. But when it was history or lit crit? Just came out of their own noggin, I guess! No expertise needed.

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A classic case is Alan Dershowitz plagiarizing Joan Peters in The Case for Israel (presumably via one of his research assistants), as Norman Finkelstein thoroughly documented in Beyond Chutzpah. Dershowitz's response was to sue UC Press and then get DePaul to deny Finkelstein tenure.

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our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope

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I don't understand the utility of a citation to something you haven't actually seen. A cite is to acknowledge that you got some rare info or insight from someone else. If they are your own, why credit someone else, especially someone else with whose work you're unfamiliar?

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