DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism

[_Dr Exiled]

Any work DCP does will be deeply in the shadow of the infinitely superior scholar and explorer, Richard Francis Burton.

His defense of Joseph's Myth has robbed him of a life of intellectual achievement. But he gets to high five his fellow cultists while "owning" the evil gentile World...which strangely enough remains oblivious to him and his band of hobbyists.

If you believe you have slain the devil in a forest, where no one else is around, where no one cares to be around, did it really happen? Well, as long as belief is strong, it happened and it was glorious.

[_Dr Exiled]

Let's face it. Mormonism is an afterthought, something to be avoided by the vast majority of the population. So, DCP and his band of haters are secondary or not even noticed. The only reason that they are even in the game, so to speak, is because there is a band of 100,000 65,000 world-wide religious interlopers, trying to convince an incredulous world of their nonsense.

[Guest]

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
I always enjoy it when Mr. Peterson claims a point
Quote:
From one of my incomplete manuscripts
:D

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ledge.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... kshop.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... faced.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... wdery.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/page/32

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... reely.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... -wren.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... art-3.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... eived.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... -dead.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... tands.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... truth.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... aud-2.html

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... ssics.html

I love the clever little notion he likes to plant with his dupes that his 'study' is littered with incomplete manuscripts, notes messily left about a large mahogany desk, a stereophonic record player quitely eliciting Vivaldi in the background, and rich artwork of dogs playing poker the Savior or a temple on his walls in an underlit space.

What. A damned. Schlub.

How does he get away with it? How in the world has BYU paid this confidence man for so many years? It's crazy.

eta: The above links are him referencing some incomplete manuscript he's been fiddling with that he totes is going to finish some day. Those links? Just a SMALL sample of how many times he's dropped that little gem.

- Doc


I'm only quoting myself for context. When called out by user lcmccabe on another Arabian Nights blog post:

Quote:
Really? I need more information here to support your premise as I do not see any parallels with the storyline of Giacondo and Astolfo in Orlando furioso with that of the Arabian Nights. Both Giacondo and Astolfo were cuckholded and so they set about getting revenge by seducing as many men's wives as possible. It didn't matter their age or beauty, the greater the reputation for virtue the more they showered their attention.

I have actually spent the last thirteen years adapting both Orlando furioso and Orlando innamorato into novels for modern day audiences, so I am well familiar with this canto you referenced. I have also read the Arabian Nights as part of my research material as Caliph Harun al-Rashid, a contemporary of Charlemagne, features in those tales.

Currently unconvinced. (And, in case you are interested, I came upon this blog post from my Google alert set for Orlando furioso.)


It becomes immediately apparent what Mr. Peter$on is up to. He pulls his usual trick by insinuating he has to get back to his study or some other repository stocked with the knowledge of a thousand scholars where he says:

Quote:
Well, I'm in the Canadian Rockies on vacation right now, hundreds of miles from home and with no library resources. So I won't be able to do any checking for quite a while.


... thus deflecting what everyone knows, that he routinely googles some topic, finds a webpage or a wiki article to plagiarize, and then posts he's working on some 'manuscript' when in reality he just craps out some re-wording of someone else's work.

Classic Peter$on.

- Doc

[_Lemmie]

I'm only quoting myself for context. When called out by user lcmccabe on another Arabian Nights blog post:

Really? I need more information here to support your premise as I do not see any parallels with the storyline of Giacondo and Astolfo in Orlando furioso with that of the Arabian Nights. Both Giacondo and Astolfo were cuckholded and so they set about getting revenge by seducing as many men's wives as possible. It didn't matter their age or beauty, the greater the reputation for virtue the more they showered their attention.

I have actually spent the last thirteen years adapting both Orlando furioso and Orlando innamorato into novels for modern day audiences, so I am well familiar with this canto you referenced. I have also read the Arabian Nights as part of my research material as Caliph Harun al-Rashid, a contemporary of Charlemagne, features in those tales.

Currently unconvinced. (And, in case you are interested, I came upon this blog post from my Google alert set for Orlando furioso.)

It becomes immediately apparent what Mr. Peter$on is up to. He pulls his usual trick by insinuating he has to get back to his study or some other repository stocked with the knowledge of a thousand scholars where he says:

Well, I'm in the Canadian Rockies on vacation right now, hundreds of miles from home and with no library resources. So I won't be able to do any checking for quite a while.

... thus deflecting what everyone knows, that he routinely googles some topic, finds a webpage or a wiki article to plagiarize, and then post he's working on some 'manuscript' when in reality he just craps out some re-wording of someone else's work.

Classic Peter$on.

- Doc

That's what happens when you just exchange synonyms to disguise your plagiarism. From Tom's documentation of DP's plagiarism:

ALF LAYLA wa-LAYLA: "... Traces of it are to be found in a novel by Giovanni Sercambi (1347-1424) and in the story of Astolfo and Giocondo which is told in the 28th canto of Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (beginning of the 16th century)..."

SeN: "... Traces of it linger, for example, in a novel by Giovanni Sercambi (1347-1424). Sometime thereafter, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, clear allusions to the story appear in the tale of Astolfo and Giocondo, which is featured in the 28th canto of Ariosto’s Orlando Furious..."

It's obvious that 'clear allusions to the story' was intended to replace the 'and' which connected it originally to 'traces of it are to be found...' The problem is that while 'allusions' might be roughly synonymous with 'traces,' the phrase 'clear allusions' apparently goes to far. At least, according to the commenter who says they have studied this. It's a weird side effect of uncorrected plagiarism, along with plagiarizing the errors included in other people's work, which happened most recently in Peterson's earthquake lake blog entry.

When you take the easy way out and plagiarize other's work instead of creating your own on a topic of interest, these things will happen and people will notice. I suppose you can chalk it up to karma--the natural penalty for intellectual theft that is allowed to go on, uncorrected.

[_Tom]

Does anyone have easy access to the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam? I’d be interested to know if the material on the Muslimphilosophy webpage regarding “Nights” is simply a copy of the entry titled “Alf Layla wa-Layla” (credited to E. Littmann).

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

It becomes immediately apparent what Mr. Peter$on is up to. He pulls his usual trick by insinuating he has to get back to his study or some other repository stocked with the knowledge of a thousand scholars where he says:

Well, I'm in the Canadian Rockies on vacation right now, hundreds of miles from home and with no library resources. So I won't be able to do any checking for quite a while.

... thus deflecting what everyone knows, that he routinely googles some topic, finds a webpage or a wiki article to plagiarize, and then posts he's working on some 'manuscript' when in reality he just craps out some re-wording of someone else's work.

I just want it pointed out that since that comment that he's 'much too busy vacationing in the Canadian Rockies' he has since posted, what, 11 entries on Patheos that are commensurate with the effort he put into the original plagiarized Arabian Nights post?

Please note from his, "What we should think of current science can quite properly depend, in part, on theology" post he oddly declined to mention the BYU professor's name while linking to his work, and then he linked to two other articles, in additional to liberally quoting from someone named Alvin Platinga.

Quite curious, if you ask me, that he can post robustly on a variety of topics researched from the tips of his Rubenesque fingers, but can't seem to *snap* provide a follow-up to his plagiarized article and, forgive me for my language, his humbling ass kicking by user 'lcmccabe'.

Will he do a follow-up? Based on his long and cantankerous posting history it's very, very unlikely.

- Doc

[_Dr. Shades]

. . . but can't seem to *snap* provide a follow-up to his plagiarized article and, forgive me for my language, his humbling ass kicking by user 'lcmccabe'.

Will you please post a link to that latter part?

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

. . . but can't seem to *snap* provide a follow-up to his plagiarized article and, forgive me for my language, his humbling ass kicking by user 'lcmccabe'.

Will you please post a link to that latter part?

Sure, here you go:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... qus_thread

- Doc

[_Dr. Shades]

Sure, here you go:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... qus_thread

- Doc

Thank you, kind sir.

[_moksha]

Lemmie has graciously provided the encouragement to make Dr. Peterson into a more conscientious scholar.