NYT plagiarism consultant admits Harris scandal 'more serious' than he thought

New York Times’ plagiarism consultant Jonathan Bailey released his "full analysis" of the allegations against Vice President Kamala Harris and recovered them "more serious" than helium initially believed. 

"At the time, I was unaware of a afloat dossier with further allegations, which led immoderate to impeach the New York Times of withholding that accusation from me. However, the nonfiction intelligibly stated that it was my ‘initial reaction’ to those allegations, not a implicit analysis," Bailey wrote connected Plagiarism Today Wednesday. "Today, I reviewed the implicit dossier prepared by Dr. Stefan Weber, whom I person covered before. I besides performed a adjacent reappraisal of 1 of his papers successful 2018."

"With this caller information, portion I judge the lawsuit is much superior than I commented to the New York Times, the overarching points remain. While determination are problems with this work, the signifier points to sloppy penning habits, not a malicious intent to defraud," helium added. 

Plagiarism advisor Jonathan Bailey revealed helium had lone reviewed the examples fixed to him by the New York Times astatine the time. (Getty Images)

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"Is it problematic? Yes. But it’s besides not the wholesale fraud that galore person claimed it to be. It sits determination betwixt what the 2 sides privation it to be," helium said.

While Bailey continued to reason the examples were much akin to sloppy enactment oregon negligence alternatively than malice from Harris, helium conceded some, specifically 2 paragraphs copied straight from Wikipedia, were wide examples of plagiarism.

"To beryllium clear, that is plagiarism. It’s compounded by the information that Wikipedia is typically not seen arsenic a reliable source, and, according to Weber, determination was an mistake successful the information," Bailey wrote.

He concluded, "Ultimately, I admit that this presumption volition marque perfectly nary 1 happy. I don’t consciousness that the publication is simply a merchandise of wholesale malicious plagiarism, nor bash I deliberation it’s escaped from problems. No substance your side, this volition beryllium an unsatisfactory answer."

In a New York Times nonfiction dissecting the claims, Bailey claimed the examples amounted "to an mistake and not an intent to defraud." He accused blimpish activistic Chris Rufo, who reported the story, of taking insignificant infractions and trying to "make a large woody of it."

Harris has been accused of plagiarizing much than 2 twelve passages successful her 2009 book. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

However, helium aboriginal revealed connected X that helium had lone reviewed the 5 examples provided to him by the New York Times and had not looked astatine the afloat analysis. 

"For those coming present from the NY Times Article. I privation to beryllium wide that I person NOT performed a afloat investigation of the book. My quotes were based connected accusation provided to maine by the reporters and spoke lone astir those passages," helium wrote.

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Rufo archetypal reported Monday connected alleged "plagiarism hunter," Austrian prof Stefan Weber, uncovering 27 times that Harris and her co-author allegedly committed immoderate signifier of plagiarism, writing, "24 fragments are plagiarism from different authors, [and] 3 fragments are self-plagiarism from a enactment written with a co-author."

Conservative activistic Christopher Rufo reported connected the allegations Monday. ((Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images), Right: (Photo by Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images))

"Taken successful total, determination is surely a breach of standards here. Harris and her co-author duplicated agelong passages astir verbatim without due citation and without quotation marks, which is the textbook explanation of plagiarism," Rufo wrote.

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