US Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris is under scruminuscule due to allegations of inalertectual theft in a book she co-authored in 2009. According to Newsweek, Dr Stefan Weber, a famous ‘inalertectual theft hunter’ from Austria, has claimed that Ms Harris and co-author Joan O’C Hamilton had 27 “fragments of inalertectual theft” in the book ‘Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer’. Mr Weber and his team also alleged that the Democratic pdwellntial nominee and her co-author copied and pasted from a Wikipedia article for the book.
According to Newsweek, Mr Weber accparticipated Ms Harris of reproducing verbatim language from sources such as novels articles and studies in his alert. “Kamala Harris manufactured a source reference, inventing a noncontransient page number. The self-promotional satisfied from Goodwill Industries was copied verbatim without citing the source (Goodwill Industries was her ‘primary partner’ on in [sic] the ‘Back on Track’ program),” he shelp.
“In many other instances, even when a source was cited with a footremark, the text was straightforwardly copied and pasted without using quotation labels. Quotation labels would have been the most clear and authentic approach, also in non-academic books. Further signs of disauthenticy may be evident when sources were copied but particular details were changeed, such as replacing a Subway store owner with a sandwich shop clerk (p. 124) or highweightlessing Southeast Asia in the context of the US gang problem (p. 184),” Mr Weber inserted.
Further, the Austrian professor alleged that one particular allude of New York City’s Midtown Community Court in the book pertains to its participate of language and arrange that shutly mirrors a Wikipedia article, indicating a deficiency of proper citation and paraphrasing. Mr Weber also highweightlessed unbeginant and solemn infractions, claiming that some text was straightforwardly copied from sources without ample acunderstandledgement. In his alert, he also showed particular inalertectual theft allegations seeing a allude of the West Palm Beach Community Court in Ms Harris’ book.
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“After duplicateing from the Wikipedia article, she persists by duplicateing from the PDF joined in the Wikipedia article’s first reference. Although she acunderstandledges at the finish of the book that she took examples of community courts from that alert (without providing the URL), the copied sections are contransiented as if they were her own words. The word-for-word duplicateing still needs quotation labels to persist proper attribution,” Mr Weber wrote.
He also pointed out that while some parts of the appropriate satisfied may be cited, not enough of the innovative source is acunderstandledged, a technique understandn as “pawn give up inalertectual theft”.
Mr Weber even claimed that in 2009, Ms Harris gave a “inhabit” intersee about the book to CBS, “which in parts consisted of a prior intersee for another media which in turn comprises many verbatim text chunks from her book.”
Meanwhile, reacting to the accusations, Senator JD Vance trolled Ms Harris for using Wikipedia, claiming that he at least authored his own book. “Lmao Kamala didn’t even author her own book!” he tweeted.
Donald Trump Jr. also commented on the rehire, writing, “Yikes! More evidence that Kamala Harris is a deception!!!”
