DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism

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Re: DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Here's a one-liner I like to use once in a while:

10,000 unemployed comedians and Tator is trying to be funny!

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You are welcome to use that one-liner anytime because most of time it is very much justified.

Back to the subject, I have a one-liner excuse that mr. DCP might want to plagiarize, I mean adopt.

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Lemmie wrote:
Yahoo Bot wrote:And so I should care about BYU's Honor Code, and why?


As to the question in your post, perhaps you are unaware that Peterson teaches at BYU.


The question was so gloriously obtuse and stupid that it is rather amazing, not to mention revealing.
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So, as I was saying, people are advised to ignore Bot's pronouncements and judgments on the topic of plagiarism in an academic context. He obviously does not have the first clue about it.
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Kishkumen wrote:So, as I was saying, people are advised to ignore Bot's pronouncements and judgments on the topic of plagiarism in an academic context. He obviously does not have the first clue about it.


Can someone who personally knows Bob please step forward (offline and privately) and help save Bob from himself?

I'm serious. It's like he's in some kind of downward mental spiral or early stage dementia. I've helped take care of family who struggled with dementia in their later years and have seen it rob them of their dignity. All the signs are there in Bob's recent posts.

Over the years I've certainly taken my fair share of good-natured potshots at Bob's unique posting style, but I really think there could be something serious going on.

I'm not trying to be funny or a dick with this post. Someone who personally knows Bob please make sure his family gets him medically evaluated.
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Sorry for being off topic here, but I think it's worth mentioning the Author of Entangled Minds, while he does have a technical background, is ultimately a Phd psychologist and not a practicing physicist. The point of the SeN article is encapsulated in the very last statement:

"So, how close is the analogy, really, between telepathy and quantum entanglement?"

Good freaking Lord.

Gemli sets the Old Guard straight. But just to be a little more precise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

" The theorem disallows all communication, not just faster-than-light communication, by means of shared quantum states."

When Gemli repeatedly tells the Old Guard they can't share information via entanglement, he gets sarcastic replies like "Is that so?" and Midgley says:

I notice the same thing about gemli. Poor ilmag just can't seem to find something better than posting on Dan's blog with the brief moments before the end, in his own less than rational understanding of things, of course.


Because DCP and Midgley have "rational understandings" of quantum mechanics that involves telepathy. LOL! This is incredible.

Note that just recently, Midgley bragged about the two science conferences the Interpreter has hosted as evidence the new MI is failing to keep up. One has to wonder what kind of junk science they're teaching at these conferences.
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Good heavens. Just when you think that you are done being baffled by the BS of classic-FARMS Mopologists. This is why they make such a rich field of study.
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Gadianton wrote:Sorry for being off topic here, but I think it's worth mentioning the Author of Entangled Minds, while he does have a technical background, is ultimately a Phd psychologist and not a practicing physicist. The point of the SeN article is encapsulated in the very last statement:

"So, how close is the analogy, really, between telepathy and quantum entanglement?"

Good freaking Lord.


Thanks, Gad, and not off topic at all. I was focused on the plagiarism, but the whole time I was documenting his cut-and-pastes, I was laughing my ass off, thinking "this is the book DCP decides to plagiarize from?!!"

On Amazon, the book is listed in the subcategory "Occult & Paranormal," found in the "Religion & Spirituality" book category.

It occurs to me now, when I just looked up the book to quote its category name correctly, that Peterson probably took his whole idea from the Amazon description. Peterson's premise:
[first sentence]Albert Einstein...compared quantum theory’s prediction of entangled particles to telepathy.

[last sentence]So, how close is the analogy, really, between telepathy and quantum entanglement?

Amazon description of Radin's work:
Albert Einstein called entanglement "spooky action at a distance"....

Could a similar entanglement of minds explain our apparent psychic abilities?

https://www.amazon.com/Entangled-Minds- ... 1416516778

According to Everybody Wang Chung's links, it wouldn't be the first time Peterson relied upon an Amazon description to talk about a book's premise.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromo ... eret-news/
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Kishkumen wrote:Good heavens. Just when you think that you are done being baffled by the BS of classic-FARMS Mopologists. This is why they make such a rich field of study.

:lol:
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Lemmie wrote:On Amazon, the book is listed in the subcategory "Occult & Paranormal," found in the "Religion & Spirituality" book category.


Huh. I guess Paranormal Peterson really does live up to his moniker.

I wonder if his employers have ever read any of these kinds of threads and blog posts detailing his overt and unabashed plagiarism?

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Gadianton wrote:Because DCP and Midgley have "rational understandings" of quantum mechanics that involves telepathy. LOL! This is incredible.


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Follow Sic et Non long enough and you'll note that DCP is rarely a non-expert.
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