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mk  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Malcolm Gladwell accused of plagiarism

His shtick drives me nuts, so schadenfreude is enough for me to share. Breezing through, some of these transgressions seem small, some larger. All could easily be corrected for with a simple reference. Why do people seem to have an aversion to referencing source material?

Gladwell was apparently cribbing from source material, putting most of that he cribbed into his own words, and then not citing. That's sloppy and dishonest.

Why isn't there an editorial search engine that checks all text? Why doesn't Google offer a one-click service to publishers as a product?