DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism

[_Res Ipsa]

As far as I know, the BYU faculty are all playing mumblty peg. Everybody Wang Chung, has any BYU faculty member told you that he is watching to see if Peterson is going to self report?

[_Tator]

I think that Everybody Wang Chung's thread 2+ years ago and this recent post of Lemmie's and the posters on those threads have been very charitable to the plagiarizer in question. No one has denied him the "opportunity" to clean up his own mess. It is his mess it is his responsibility to clean it up. DCPasterson has been given a gift for having this issue reported to him first, a gift of charity from the board full of posters he hates the most.

DCPasterson's conduct is lazy, lazy when he wrote it, too lazy to clean it up. His conduct start to finish is not the conduct of a professional. His ego is so big he can't see around it and CTR.

I don't think the plagiarizer deserves anymore favors nor does the DN or BYU or the Mormon church. I hope this gets reported and makes it to a real news outlet.

[_Kittens_and_Jesus]

As a recent nursing school grad, I can tell you that my intentions would mean nothing to a university if I were to do what DCP has done. Even if it were my first mistake, I would at the least fail the course and be placed on a type of probation. If I had done it as many times as documented here, I would be removed and banned from the institution.

Professors are the ones that are supposed to teach people not to make these mistakes and catch them when they do.

Why should we hold them to a lower standard?

A professor that is incapable of avoiding plagiarism has no place in academia. Whether intentional or not, DCP has shown himself unworthy of the credentials he has on paper.

[_I have a question]

I found amusement in the following disclaimer on the latest “Defending The Faith” article...

Daniel Peterson founded BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, chairs The Interpreter Foundation and blogs on Patheos. William Hamblin is the author of several books on premodern history. They speak only for themselves.

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865 ... nesis.html

[Guest]

This is interesting:

https://www.imediaethics.org/fooled-twi ... -software/

Fooled twice, Deseret News gets Plagiarism Detection software

by Sydney Smith July 03, 2014 05:00 AM EST

TAGS: DESERET NEWS, PLAGIARISM, U.S. SUBMIT A TIP

The Deseret News has started using plagiarism detecting software PlagScan to help the paper make sure it doesn’t publish plagiarized material, Utah’s City Weekly reported.

The Deseret News is a Utah daily newspaper that is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

PlagScan describes itself as “an entirely browser-based web service” that scans content for plagiarism.

The Deseret News website editor Burke Olsen told Utah’s City Weekly

“We’ve tested a few different solutions in an effort to help our editors evaluate content…PlagScan is the best solution we’ve found so far for a newsroom setting. It’s not a silver bullet, but it’s another way we’re using technology to innovate and improve.”

The News had two noteworthy cases of plagiarism in 2013, as iMediaEthics previously reported.

iMediaEthics alerted the Deseret News to a problematic article by a summer intern. The Deseret News quickly rewrote the article and added an editor’s note that acknowledged it “failed to properly attribute all source materials.”

The News ended up finding 40 articles written by the intern that contained improper attribution. The intern told iMediaEthics he didn’t know proper attribution standards.

Also in 2013, the Deseret News unpublished a column written by a husband and wife team that lifted substantially from the New York Times. One of the columnists told iMediaEthics he “stupidly forgot” to add in attribution.

In total, The Deseret News found six articles by those columnists with problems and suspended them for a month.

iMediaEthics has written to the Deseret News’ Chris Higbee to ask why the newspaper chose PlagScan and if all articles will be scanned for plagiarism moving forward. We’ll update with any additional information.

This begs the question as to whose articles are getting scanned and why is Daniel C. Peterson's articles at the DN not? Because those articles are rife with non-attributed material.

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

How do you accidentally, on numerous occasions, take passages from works you read, edit them by eliminating and rearranging clauses, replacing words with others similar in meaning, and adding embellishments, then pass them off in your own writing without attribution?

How do you propose that works as a matter of unintentional accident? Mind you, this isn't not knowing what plagiarism is. This is a college professor we are talking about.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

How do you accidentally, on numerous occasions, take passages from works you read, edit them by eliminating and rearranging clauses, replacing words with others similar in meaning, and adding embellishments, then pass them off in your own writing without attribution.

How do you propose that works as a matter of unintentional accident? Mind you, this isn't accidentally not knowing what plagiarism is. This is a college professor we are talking about.

Just to drive the point home a bit further, if you take this article:

https://rsc.BYU.edu/archived/historicit ... -inerrancy

written by Mr. Peterson and give it a nice once or twice over you'll notice that he's acutely aware of quoting others, giving attribution to others, referencing, and sourcing his, uh, sources.

This is not a man who has 'whoopsie' moments that spans dozens hundreds and hundreds of publications, at least a couple of decades, and who understands the rules within his given industries.

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

Immature bloggers imitate; mature bloggers steal. - Dr. Daniel C. Peterson, probably.

[_moksha]

Would the argument that it is not plagiarism since everything Dr. Peterson has written was in the service of the Lord fly with an academic review committee at BYU?

If you can lie for the Lord, couldn't you also plagiarize for the Lord?

[_DrW]

Here's how Peterson self-reports:

By the way:  I’ve been ridiculed, of late, for my embarrassing scientific ignorance and for my invariable dependence, in my blog entries regarding science, on a comical assortment of flakes, charlatans, and pseudo-scientists.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterso ... arbon.html

[bolding added.]

Does that qualify as an apology for his repeated, ongoing, uncorrected plagiarism?

Lemmie,

Thanks for the link to the DCP 01/06/2018 blog entry. In it, he defends himself by mentioning a short list of bona fide scientists to whom he has referred. (Par for the course and pretty much the best defense he could muster.)

In slogging through his 2017 blog posts in order to provide specific instances of his reliance on religionists and the anti-science crowd to interpret science for him, I note that he depends a great deal on link and run blog posting - especially when it comes to science.

This rather lackadaisical posting style is severely frowned upon by our esteemed Dr. Shades and is therefore considered bad form here. For DCP, however, it is often a work product.