Irrespective of the merits of this claim, they are selectively digging into the backgrounds of minorities in prominent positions. It’s kind of disgusting given that if you look hard enough you’ll find dirt in anyone’s past.
I can't wait for the day that AI is used to expose the fakers en-masse. Previously, they got away with plagiarism through obscurity - no longer. The sooner we can excise these freeloaders from our professional institutions, the better.
I did not go though the grueling process of writing an original PhD thesis, just to share a title with those who plagiarized their thesis.
“Chatbot, please rephrase this entire passage so that plagiarism detectors will consider it clean.”
It’s been happening from the moment ChatGPT was released, and after 15 years or so, all the leading young academic stars will have grown up with it.
Amen. No to excusing plagiarism of folks that have used it as a tool to climb the ranks of academia.
At least for every example I saw, there was no way a reader would think she was passing the ideas off as her own.