Culture Plagiarism Scandal Hits The Fed - Guess the race and gender

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/plagiarism-scandal-hits-fed

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Another week, another plagiarism scandal in the ivory towers.

This time, journalists Chris Rufo and the Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak found that Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook appears to have plagiarized her academic work in violation of her former university's policy.

Spoiler

Cook, who taught economics at Harvard and Michigan State before serving on the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisers, went on to be appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022. At the time, her academic record was so thin - and focused on race activism vs. 'rigorous, quantitative econ,' that she had trouble getting confirmed by the Senate (her nomination required VP Kamala Harris to cast a tie-breaking vote).

According to Rufo, "in a series of academic papers spanning more than a decade, Cook appears to have copied language from other scholars without proper quotation and duplicated her own work and that of coauthors in multiple academic journals, without proper attribution." (Click into the below thread on X for more examples).

In "The Antebellum Roots of Distinctively Black Names," Cook copied-and-pasted verbatim language from Calomiris and Pritchett, without using quotation marks when describing their findings, as required by her own university’s written policy. pic.twitter.com/1KwWCtTntU
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) April 10, 2024

According to Michigan State's own policy on plagiarism, Cook is a plagiarist. In the past, administrators have warned students that "plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course."

Cook's work is littered with these and other instances of plagiarism and self-plagiarism, according to MSU's policy. Some of the instances are minor, perhaps signifying sloppiness, but others are much more troubling, rising to apparent misconduct. pic.twitter.com/zoqwfVEX4Y
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) April 10, 2024

Cook duplicates long passages verbatim without quotation or proper attribution, changing minor words and punctuation.

Cook's most famous "economics" paper is about how the number of black inventors purportedly plummeted suddenly in 1900 due to racism. In reality, one of the largest data sets of inventions Cook was relying on simply ended in that year.
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) April 10, 2024

What's more, Cook's rigor has also come under fire and she misrepresented her own credentials. As Rufo and Rosiak write in City Journal and the Daily Wire:

Her most heralded work, 2014’s “Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940,” examined the number of patents by black inventors in the past, concluding that the number plummeted in 1900 because of lynchings and discrimination. Other researchers soon discovered that the reason for the sudden drop in 1900 was that one of the databases Cook relied on stopped collecting data in that year. The true number of black patents, one subsequent study found, might be as much as 70 times greater than Cook’s figure, effectively debunking the study’s premise.
Cook also seems to have consistently inflated her own credentials. In 2022, investigative journalist Christopher Brunet pointed out that, despite billing herself as a macroeconomist, Cook had never published a peer-reviewed macroeconomics article and had misrepresented her publication history in her CV, claiming that she had published an article in the journal American Economic Review. In truth, the article was published in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, a less prestigious, non-peer-reviewed magazine.

When asked for comment, Cook told the journalists: "I certainly am proud of my academic background."

As Rufo and Rosiak note in closing (emphasis ours):

Cook is no stranger to mobilizing such punishments against others. In 2020, she participated in the attempted defenestration of esteemed University of Chicago economist Harald Uhlig for the crime of publicly opposing the “defund the police” movement. She called for Uhlig’s removal from the classroom, claiming that he had made an insensitive remark about Martin Luther King, Jr. (The university closed its own inquiry after concluding that there was “not a basis” to investigate further.) Uhlig, in a 2022 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, asked the pertinent question: Under the leadership of an ideologue such as Lisa Cook, would the Fed continue to pursue its mandate, or succumb to left-wing activism?

Time will tell if the gears of justice turn against Lisa Cook, or if repeated academic misconduct, defended by some as mere sloppiness or isolated mistakes, is fast becoming an acceptable part of the academic order—as long as the alleged author of that behavior is favored by the powerful.

 

[The Punished Mitch]

All diversity hires at the higher echelons are simply there because they're both bought and paid for as well as too stupid to figure out what the kikes around them are doing.

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

I understand plagiarism, but self-plagiarism being punishable feels like a weird rule. I guess academia is just getting to a Pharisaical level of making and following rules...but fuck, if I wrote something once and then years later wrote a similar sentence, that isn't plagiarism. That's like arguing boilerplate code can't be reused and must be written differently each time.

 

[dustbuster]

well, this goes a long way to explaining the fed raising rates, causing rent to drive inflation, then refusing to lower rates.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

oh who would have guess that a PoC DIE candidate who was rammed thru as a fuck you move would have turned out to be totally unsuitable to the role she was chose for.

People wonder why shit is falling apart, why each weeks seems worse then the last not matter how often they read that "life is the bestest evar". It's because DIE is putting people who should be selling you french fries into positions of power to speed up the oncoming collapse.

The fools think they will be the ones to come out ahead when things fall apart, mutherfuckers your drones can't even run a formerly functional society and you think YOUR the one to rebuild and bring about utopia? You stupid fucks can't even run a 7-11 let alone a society.

 

[Safir]

I understand plagiarism, but self-plagiarism being punishable feels like a weird rule. I guess academia is just getting to a Pharisaical level of making and following rules...but fuck, if I wrote something once and then years later wrote a similar sentence, that isn't plagiarism. That's like arguing boilerplate code can't be reused and must be written differently each time.

Self-plagiarism is publishing the same thing a second time and pretending it's something new, to accumulate "publications". Barely active cow Rhys McKinnon is infamous for this. For example:

A stunning and brave woman working on norms of assertion got publicly dragged by a journal for recycling her material into multiple papers:

https://academic.oup.com/analysis/article-abstract/80/4/731/6121519?login=false

... It's not actually Rhys but the coincidence was too amusing not to share

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

Self-plagiarism is publishing the same thing a second time and pretending it's something new, to accumulate "publications". Barely active cow Rhys McKinnon is infamous for this. For example:

That makes sense, I just keep seeing people being accused of "lifting sentences without citation" and it always seems like their previous work has people combing through to find similar/same sentences to rack up more accusations, and in that light calling it self-plagiarism seems like a reach.

 

[David Kirk Ginder]

Seems like female plagiarist basketball Americans are the new stereotype?

 

[Kosher Dill]

I understand plagiarism, but self-plagiarism being punishable feels like a weird rule. I guess academia is just getting to a Pharisaical level of making and following rules

The issue is that in academia, when you publish you're expected to be producing something new and original, and if you just recycle your old work you're effectively defrauding your publishers as well as wasting your readers' time.
The implementation of plagiarism rules in practice is Pharisaical and hypocritical - an honest mistake by a college freshman who misplaced his quotation marks might get the academic death penalty, whereas genuine deception by a ranking professor with his own lab might get a slap on the wrist. But the underlying idea is sound and necessary.

That's like arguing boilerplate code can't be reused and must be written differently each time.

Imagine it more like every single line of code at your employer having to be reviewed by hand for correctness, security, and copyright concerns, and then someone pastes in a bunch of code from one of your company's internal libraries instead of just linking it. It's perfectly legal but you're wasting other people's time and if the original code ever needs modification you've got this silent dependency lurking around now.

 

[Gog & Magog]

All diversity hires at the higher echelons are simply there because they're both bought and paid for as well as too stupid to figure out what the kikes around them are doing.

What is it these (((kikes))) are doing, Mitch?

 

[74164978231]

well, this goes a long way to explaining the fed raising rates, causing rent to drive inflation, then refusing to lower rates.

Housing is shit atm because weve let 10+ million people flood into the country in the span of 4 years. The fucked up situation caused by non existent interest for the first 2 years of that just made it worse.

 

[mindlessobserver]

I understand plagiarism, but self-plagiarism being punishable feels like a weird rule.

I feel like it started out as one of the bullshit rules professors foisted on Undergrads to make their lives more miserable. After all, if you are an aspiring Business student, you really don't give much of a shit about History. So to satisfy your Business professor, you write an essay about how the Gold Standard made certain macroeconomic principles more difficult to manage, and could exasperate depression cycles. And then rework that same essay into a history of some financial panic in the 1800's using all of your already collected sourcing data. Two essays for the price of one.

Nothing specifically wrong about it per se, since both essays are the product of your own research and writing, but your History professor probably felt professionally slighted. Thus the rule was made, and for whatever reason once those Undergrads became Professors themselves they just kept enforcing the rule amongst themselves professionally as well as on their undergrads.

 

[The Ugly One]

I understand plagiarism, but self-plagiarism being punishable feels like a weird rule.

You're only supposed to get one publication out of an article. If you need to reference an old article you wrote, you use a citation, not a ctrl-c ctrl-v. If doing that would reduce your new article to nothing more than a blizzard of citations, well, it's not new research, is it?

 

[mindlessobserver]

You're only supposed to get one publication out of an article. If you need to reference an old article you wrote, you use a citation, not a ctrl-c ctrl-v. If doing that would reduce your new article to nothing more than a blizzard of citations, well, it's not new research, is it?

I would be sympathetic to this line of reasoning were it not for the retarded demand of universities to publish a never ending tidal wave of bullshit.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Cook, who taught economics at Harvard and Michigan State

Did anyone at Harvard do their own work? Anyone other than Uncle Ted, I mean. We know he enjoyed doing his own work.

 

[tehpope]

Did anyone at Harvard do their own work? Anyone other than Uncle Ted, I mean. We know he enjoyed doing his own work.

In the 21st Century, probably not.

 

[The Ugly One]

I would be sympathetic to this line of reasoning were it not for the retarded demand of universities to publish a never ending tidal wave of bullshit.

If you can't come up with original publications without plagiarizing you shouldn't get tenure.

 

[The Dude]

oh who would have guess that a PoC DIE candidate who was rammed thru as a fuck you move would have turned out to be totally unsuitable to the role she was chose for.

People wonder why shit is falling apart, why each weeks seems worse then the last not matter how often they read that "life is the bestest evar". It's because DIE is putting people who should be selling you french fries into positions of power to speed up the oncoming collapse.

The fools think they will be the ones to come out ahead when things fall apart, mutherfuckers your drones can't even run a formerly functional society and you think YOUR the one to rebuild and bring about utopia? You stupid fucks can't even run a 7-11 let alone a society.

To be fair, I wouldn't want that ugly ape selling me French fries either. Wouldn't want her touching my food or my money. She looks like she smells bad.

 

[northstar747]

well, this goes a long way to explaining the fed raising rates, causing rent to drive inflation, then refusing to lower rates.

Isnt the easy credit the creation of more money?

you know the whole barrow 100 dollars put in the bank, the bank then loans out 90 dollars of it barrower then puts it in his bank and, then that bank loans out 81 dollars of it, that barrow then puts it in his bank who then loans out 72.90 cents and so on.

 

[dustbuster]

Isnt the easy credit the creation of more money?

If the main drivers of inflation are things that are not related to easy credit, but instead related to high interest rates, then the intelligent thing is to lower rates.

Mortgage rates are at 8%.
It's adding $1000 to the monthly payment of the average mortgaged dwelling.
This puts upward pressure on rents, which is one of the main drivers of current inflation numbers.

Relieving interest rates would remove this pressure.
Failing to do so, will eventually lead to a housing crash that will cause a mortgage crisis because Loan to Value will render borrowers incapable of refinancing (assuming the damage already done hasn't caused this already)