| ▲ | Aurornis 2 hours ago | |
> The article doesn’t really expand upon what having fragments copied from others means. They link to the document that shows the plagiarized sections side by side with their sources https://v42.arretsurimages.net/fichiers/documents/2024-08-02... I don't read enough French (especially at PhD thesis level!) to parse everything, but even I can see phrasings copied from the source documents in a lot of the examples. Some of them weren't even paraphrasing, they were lifting the exact distinctive word choices. | ||
| ▲ | bambax 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
He has a lot of wild defense arguments; one of my favorites is: at some point in his life he lost the ability to speak; to recover his voice he trained it by reading aloud some books over and over, so much so that the content of these books became part of his own brain / of himself. (Another one, unrelated, but also wild, argues that people who attack him are in fact against science itself, that they want to go back to the Middle Ages, etc.) It's very obvious he pieced together interesting ideas from others to pass them as his own. And it worked very well, he has radio shows and TV shows and whatnot. And he still has a lot of supporters! | ||