Via Instapundit: The true scandal of the Claudine Gay affair is not a Harvard president and her plagiarism. The true scandal is that so many journalists and academics were willing, are still willing, to redefine plagiarism to suit their politics.
Ponzi Finance
It’s by no means unexpected, but 2024 is going to bring some tax hikes for Canadians when it comes to funding their retirement. Or, more accurately, funding the retirement of people a lot younger than you. But that’s what socialized pensions are all about. You pay more, and “others” get the proceeds.
Anyone who has paid into CPP since 2019 will receive higher benefits, but the full effects will take decades to materialize, so the youngest workers stand to gain the most. People retiring 40 years from now will see their income go up by more than 50 per cent compared to the current pension beneficiaries.
The Part I Like Best
About drug decriminalization is the way it protects children by getting drugs off the streets.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why y’all should be taking notes on how to ride out a blizzard in a homemade truck camper.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m hard at work converting ploughshares into swords.
A teenager who allegedly planned a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Ohio was ordered by a judge to write a book report as part of his punishment.
WKYC reported that the Stark County Sheriff’s Office said that its deputies responded to a call in early September regarding a 13-year-old boy who was involved in “concerning conversations” on a social media platform that included numerous threats toward Temple Israel in the city of Canton.
The boy, who was not named due to his age, pleaded “true,” which is the juvenile equivalent of guilty, on Friday to misdemeanor charges of inducing panic and disorderly conduct.
According to court documents, the boy “did create a detailed plan to complete a mass shooting at the Temple Israel on the Discord platform which was reported to law enforcement and required an immediate investigatory response and notification of public individuals and agencies including the school system in which caused significant public alarm within those agencies.”
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
Harvard cleared its president Claudine Gay of plagiarism before it even investigated whether her academic work was copied, The Post reveals today.
In a threatening legal letter to The Post in late October, the college called allegations that she lifted other academics’ work “demonstrably false,” and said all her works were “cited and properly credited.”
Days later Gay herself asked for an investigation and Harvard tore up its own rules to ask outside experts to review her work, saying it had to avoid a conflict of interest.
And the experts then found she did need to make multiple corrections to her academic record.
The bare-knuckled law firm Harvard employed to try to keep the plagiarism allegations from ever coming to light told The Post it would sue for “immense” damages.
Harvard never revealed an investigation had been launched as the lawyers put pressure on The Post to kill its reporting.
But more than a month later, on December 12 Harvard said Gay had been investigated by its top governing body and was correcting two academic journals, to acknowledge where her work had really come from — meaning the claim it was “properly credited” was false.
As if being a smug anti-Semite wasn’t reason enough to fire her.
Harvard then took plagiarism seriously — and in one way still does, disciplining dozens of students every year for this gravest of academic sins. Even transgressions falling short of plagiarism could still constitute “misuse of sources,” for which a year’s probation and suspension from participation in extracurricular activities were the usual response. Plagiarists, meanwhile — those who had lifted someone else’s language without quotation marks or citation — were bounced from the college for a year, during which time they were required to work at a nonacademic job (no year-long backpacking trip) and refrain from visiting Cambridge. They would be readmitted after submitting a statement that examined their original misdeed and reflected on it.
Maybe there’s an explanation after all.
And still more.
Things You’ll Never See At The CBC
A common argument in favour of defunding the CBC is that its news content exhibits ideological bias. In particular, it has been subject to criticism that it is too progressive and Liberal-friendly, including for instance in its recent coverage of the Israel-Hamas war and Chinese interference in Canadian elections.
However, the assumption of the CBC’s progressive bias has rarely been tested empirically. To remedy this, I conducted an analysis of the CBC’s coverage of an issue that became a sustained national news story this past fall: Saskatchewan’s parental consent policy for children’s gender pronoun changes in schools.
The public debate around Saskatchewan’s pronoun policy involves complexity, competing perspectives, and evolving public opinion. It’s the sort of issue for which the role of the news media is presumably to establish and situate the facts, present the different points of view, and help Canadians work through the nuances. Yet, as my analysis shows, that’s not how the CBC’s reporting handled the issue. […]
Across 38 articles, the CBC quoted more than five times as many critics of Saskatchewan’s policy as supporters (81 critics, 15 supporters, and five neutral). Moreover, supporters were grouped into a small number of articles, with six of the 15 supporters quoted in a single story about competing public rallies. Only 16 percent of the total articles (six of 38) quoted at least one supporter of the policy, compared to 95 percent of articles (36 of 38) that quoted at least one critic of the government’s policy. And support was never presented independent of criticism: all six articles that included a quote from a supporter also included at least one quote from a critic.
The critics quoted by the CBC were also far more likely to be in a position of authority, while supporters were almost entirely laypeople. Of the 59 critics whose opinions were sought out by the CBC, 26 were what I classify as “experts”—lawyers and legal scholars, professors, school board presidents, health professionals, and LGBTQ organizations—and a further six were teachers. The focus on expertise was even higher from those quoted from the public record: of the 22 critics who were quoted from the public record, twenty (91 percent) were experts or organizations representing experts. By contrast, CBC reporters did not seek out a single “expert” to speak in favour of Saskatchewan’s policy. Of the 13 quotes from supporters that were sought by the CBC, nine were from community members or protestors at rallies, while four were from the leaders of three small socially conservative interest groups.
If Women Ran The World
Embattled Harvard president Claudine Gay has been hit with 40 fresh allegations of plagiarism, with claims that she lifted ‘entire paragraphs’ in her academic writing.
The new allegations were first published in a shocking report from the Washington Free Beacon and span seven publications authored by Gay, ranging from missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim.
It comes as the House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced that it’s widening the scope of its probe into Gay’s work, according to a letter written by Rep. Virginia Foxx. The committee had already opened a probe into antisemitism at the Harvard campus following Gay’s testimony that was heavily criticized.
Gay initially submitted two corrections to papers from 2001 and 2017 after she was accused of plagiarism, adding ‘quotation marks and citations,’ a Harvard spokesman said.
However, after additional claims of plagiarism, the Ivy League then said on Wednesday that Gay would also update three spots in her Ph.D. dissertation to add attributions.
Even the NYT is coming for her.
The Children Are Our Future
All the unintentional incidents fall in the same direction;
Medicine Hat High School received backlash on Thursday, December 14, 2023, after students saw instructions for how to safely prepare illicit substances for consumption earlier this week.
The instructions were of part of just one of several pamphlets distributed at a wellness fair on Tuesday.
Pamphlets included “Safer Crystal Meth Smoking“, “Safe Crack Smoking” and “Safer Snorting” — outlining ways to smoke crystal meth and crack while outlining safe supplies to use.
We’re gonna need a bigger law.
Update: Danielle Smith announces the Alberta government will be reviewing funding agreements with the harm reduction organization. Do tell.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
You’re a man who serves as Chairman of the Board of a large University who led the search for the recently hired president.
Your wife runs a non-profit in the DEI space. She is the only full-time employee of the organization, serving as Founder, CEO, and CFO. You serve as Treasurer. The non-profit ostensibly sells two principal products in the DEI space:
1. “Evidence-based ‘how-to-guides’ and
2. “The most comprehensive intersectional analytics platform of its kind…”but the non-profit has no revenues. It relies entirely on contributions to fund its operations, which principally consist of your wife’s salary and some other ancillary overhead.
There have been only two contributors to the non-profit, the University whose board you chair, which has contributed:
2018 $100,000
2019 $300,000
2020 $150,000
2021 $600,000
2022 $789,000
If Women Ran The World
Out: “It’s not rape rape.”
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
By choice or by design;
Last night I was watching a lecture when the physician said “We’re seeing residents who couldn’t tell you which end is the head and which the tail [pancreas]. I’m hoping these remedial programs work.”
“What?!”, said I …
“Remedial medical education for a med school grad who’s been accepted into a respected residency program?!” So I looked into it for you.
Threaded here.
“Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania.”
Sorry, we didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
What’s The Opposite Of Diversity?
“It is a context dependent decision.”
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
Update: …growing calls for the presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT to resign
Polling for Dollars
It shouldn’t surprise anyone who financed this opinion poll. The questions are absolutely geared to reinforce the prevailing narrative. It’s not much different from “elections” in the Soviet Union in which the communist party candidate would get 98% of the votes.
92% of Canadians agree they feel confident in the food safety and animal welfare standards used in dairy, chicken, turkey and egg farming in Canada because of supply management. 94% of Canadians also prefer their dairy, eggs, chicken, and turkey products to be produced locally and in Canada under supply management.
The Fruits of Post-Modern Education
Several media outlets are currently running stories regarding the continuing lackluster performance of Canadian students in the field of math, but only a few can articulate the actual reasons why the problem is getting worse instead of better.
International math test scores from the OECD show a steady decline among 15-year-old Canadian students from 2003 to 2018.
To explain away the documented deterioration of math education, those responsible have employed two strategies. The first, undertaken by staff at the Toronto District School Board’s math department (among others) has been to denounce standardized tests as a manifestation of racial bias and white privilege. It is a bizarre claim, a clear grasping at straws. The second is to hide the decline of educational quality with grade inflation, which has now reached stratospheric levels.
Pineapple On Pineapple
Entitled to entitlements.
Greta The Magical Retard
Housing Micromanagement
I often wonder if conservative parties are all that different from their opposition. Witholding federal funding in order to browbeat civic governments into changing their housing policies to meet arbitrary targets sounds a lot like central planning. You could just drop federal housing subsidies altogether, repeal federal building codes and put an end to zero percent interest rates, but someone clearly thinks that this won’t buy enough votes.
Require big, unaffordable cities to build more homes and speed up the rate at which they build homes every year to meet our housing targets. Cities must increase the number of homes built by 15% each year and then 15% on top of the previous target every single year (it compounds). If targets are missed, cities will have to catch up in the following years and build even more homes, or a percentage of their federal funding will be withheld, equivalent to the percentage they missed their target by.