Comment by paytonjjones
7 hours ago
I can't read French, but having evaluated many of these plagiarism cases in the past, a lot of them truly are witch hunts.
The plagiarism will be something like "Einstein presented a new theory: ___" and the ___ and several sections of the next few pages will be barely modified Einstein quotes.
Should they have used quotation marks? Technically, yes. But using them breaks up the flow for the reader, and it's not like they are failing to give credit to Einstein.
As an academic, I really would not care much if someone did this to my work so long as they mention and cite me generally.
It's not his physic thesis, it's his philosophy thesis. I think i will make a comment or ask dang to change the title to make it clear
That would be good but the same principle applies. A huge part of a thesis in any field is just summarizing existing work, and if represented as such along with referencing names, may technically be plagiarism but most academics do not see it as the "bad kind" of plagiarism.
OK, that is relevant context, because the quotes that people are saying he plagiarized wouldn't make sense to count as plagiarism in a physics thesis. I was scratching my head, thinking of how he could have plagiarized Camus in a physics thesis that isn't just some turn of phrase.