DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism

[I Have Questions]

It’s shown in everything he’s done. Take the Everybody Wang Chung signature line. DCP promised to write two books whilst on a sabbatical from BYU, he broke that promise.

I have a couple of thoughts. My understanding sabbatical includes an intended purpose not a contract. It is also possible he finished two books which found no publisher. Of course he may have gotten distracted.

You’re a generous person. DCP made a promise to BYU, and then didn’t lift a finger to honour that promise.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

I’m moving my post back to this thread because it’s topical:

DCP’s plagiarisms is in full effect here:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... c-god.html

In particular: “The Greek word kosmos means “order, good order, orderly arrangement.” The verb kosmein (given here in its infinitive form) meant generally “to dispose,” “to prepare,” but especially “to order and arrange [e.g., troops for battle],” “to set [an army] in array,” as well as “to establish [a government or regime],” and (particularly with regard to women) “to deck,” “to adorn,” “to equip,” “to dress.” It is closely related to our common word cosmetic.”, which he lifted without attribution from:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cosmos

“.. of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array;" also "to establish (a government or regime);" "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women). Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (compare kosmokomes "dressing the hair," and cosmetic) as well as "the universe, the world."

The follow-on paragraph pasted below is also mosaically plagiarized from:

https://tinyurl.com/DCP-Plagiarism-Checker

“It seems to have been Pythagoras, in the sixth century BC, who first used the term cosmos for the orderly and harmonious universe that we observe, as opposed to the chaos that it could be and might once have been. And, although little is known for certain about him, Pythagoras appears to have been the first, or among the first, to have seen that nature could be represented and discussed mathematically. One of his influential notions was that of the “music of the spheres” or the “harmony of the spheres.”

- Doc

[Marcus]

I’m moving my post back to this thread because it’s topical:

DCP’s plagiarisms is in full effect here:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... c-god.html

In particular: “The Greek word kosmos means “order, good order, orderly arrangement.” The verb kosmein (given here in its infinitive form) meant generally “to dispose,” “to prepare,” but especially “to order and arrange [e.g., troops for battle],” “to set [an army] in array,” as well as “to establish [a government or regime],” and (particularly with regard to women) “to deck,” “to adorn,” “to equip,” “to dress.” It is closely related to our common word cosmetic.”, which he lifted without attribution from:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cosmos

“.. of Greek kosmos "order, good order, orderly arrangement," a word with several main senses rooted in those notions: The verb kosmein meant generally "to dispose, prepare," but especially "to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array;" also "to establish (a government or regime);" "to deck, adorn, equip, dress" (especially of women). Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of "ornaments of a woman's dress, decoration" (compare kosmokomes "dressing the hair," and cosmetic) as well as "the universe, the world."

The follow-on paragraph pasted below is also mosaically plagiarized from:

https://tinyurl.com/DCP-Plagiarism-Checker

“It seems to have been Pythagoras, in the sixth century BC, who first used the term cosmos for the orderly and harmonious universe that we observe, as opposed to the chaos that it could be and might once have been. And, although little is known for certain about him, Pythagoras appears to have been the first, or among the first, to have seen that nature could be represented and discussed mathematically. One of his influential notions was that of the “music of the spheres” or the “harmony of the spheres.”

- Doc

Thanks for moving it back, it is definitely topical!!

[drumdude]

It’s fascinating to see him take the time to hide the plagiarism rather than just write something original.

[Everybody Wang Chung]

It’s fascinating to see him take the time to hide the plagiarism rather than just write something original.

It's psychologically fascinating.

[Marcus]

Peterson makes declarations, supposedly to correct things said here:

Just so that there will be no illusions here — alas, no cure exists for some of the denizens of the Peterson Obsession Board — I repeat (yet again) declarations that I’ve issued here multiple times before. And I expand upon them just a bit:

• I make no money from Latter-day Saint apologetics. (My wife and I have been and continue to be [admittedly minor] donors to apologetics.)
  
  I have no financial interest or investment in promoting limited-geographical models for the Book of Mormon and derive no profit from any of them.
  
  I’ve seldom even written on the topic of Book of Mormon geography, and then typically only in passing.
  
  Since I earn no money at all from promoting limited-geographical models, it’s highly unlikely that I earn hundreds of thousands of dollars from doing so.
  
  I make no money from leading tours to Mesoamerica.
  
  To the best of my recollection, I’ve been on only one tour to Mesoamerica during my adult lifetime, and I received no money for going on that tour....
  
  https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... homes.html

Do you notice what is not on the list? There is no declaration that:

• I, Daniel C. Peterson, have stopped plagiarizing from others and posting my plagiarisms on my blog and or selling them to Deseret News and LDS Meridian Magazine.
  
  I, Daniel C. Peterson, have corrected all of my past plagiarisms, which have been extensively documented at the DMBoard, by properly using quotes and properly attributing work to the correct authors.
  
  I, Daniel C. Peterson, have notified various agencies, identified at the DMBoard, of my plagiarisms of the work of authors that they have published, and have made restitution, following their rules for reimbursing them for intellectual property use.
  
  I, Daniel C. Peterson, have removed all the duplicate plagiarisms from my blog, numbering in the dozens.
  
  I, Daniel C. Peterson, have informed Deseret News and Meridian Magazine of my plagiarized columns that I submitted and was paid for, and have had them removed and replaced with appropriate apologies.
  
  I, Daniel C. Peterson, have returned the money Deseret News and Meridian Magazine paid me for any submissions that contained my plagiarisms.
  
  I, Daniel C. Peterson, have informed Patheos that I have removed all work which I had fraudulently asserted was my intellectual property.
  
  I, Daniel C. Peterson, have apologized to my fellow lds apologists or their families (for example, Grant Hardy, Prof. Hamblin's family, and various authors from lds publications, etc.) for plagiarizing their work and representing it on my blog as my own.

Do you think we will ever see that list?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

He actually made money from apologetics. His CV was posted once, and it was full of apologetic endeavors, and If I recall correctly an apologetic book or two. Sure he was a professor of ME studies, and he led the METI project, but the vast majority of his academic career was devoted to apologetics. I know, I know, he taught classes, but his CV showed what his primary focus was.

- Doc

[Doctor Scratch]

He actually made money from apologetics. His CV was posted once, and it was full of apologetic endeavors, and If I recall correctly an apologetic book or two. Sure he was a professor of ME studies, and he led the METI project, but the vast majority of his academic career was devoted to apologetics. I know, I know, he taught classes, but his CV showed what his primary focus was.

- Doc

The issue of his remuneration from Mopologetics is arguably the biggest and most brazen lie he has told. He has profited in countless ways due to Mopologetics, and I think it is more than fair to say that the endless vacation he's currently on is a direct result of his involvement in Mopologetics.

As for concrete proof? Well, of course, the key piece of evidence are the two tax forms from FARMS from 1998 and 1999--just prior to the organization getting "absorbed" by BYU and the Maxwell Institute. The forms show that Daniel Peterson was paid over $20,000 one year to serve as "Chair of FARMS," and some $7,000 the following year. Meanwhile, we have his own emails to Gerald Bradford (from 2012) where he angrily demands that he be compensated financially for his work on the FARMS Review / Mormon Studies Review. He absolutely, definitively *has* earned money from apologetic work: there is no question about it.

As to why he continues to deny it: it's tough to say. A part of me wonders if he has convinced himself that this is true, in spite of all the mountains of evidence to the contrary. But he has also said in the past that he dislikes the accusation because it "makes [him] look like a mercenary." So that would seem to be a partial admission of guilt. In the past, this was a very touchy subject and he threatened legal action on multiple occasions due to the topic being discussed. So that also points in the direction of him trying to cover it up.

[drumdude]

Who amongst us hasn’t received tens of thousands of dollars worth of free vacations to opine on fictional history to bolster a billion dollar corporate religion?

I hear he still drives a mini van so it can’t possibly be true.

[Moksha]

Who amongst us hasn’t received tens of thousands of dollars worth of free vacations to opine on fictional history to bolster a billion-dollar corporate religion?

It is not like the Church cannot afford it, and he does carry the defense of the LDS Gospel from Swiss chalets to tropical beaches and the highlands of Scotland.

Think of all the members uplifted by his Book of Mormon lands lectures, and he has even met with Dr. Shades.