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Bill Ackman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Because biology and gender, you know, there are faculty, there's a woman at Harvard who was literally canceled from the faculty as a member, I think she was at the med school. And she was, you know, she made the argument that there are basically, you know, two genders determined by biology. She wasn't allowed to stay. Okay. That's another topic for another time. That's another topic.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You should do a show on that one. That would be an interesting one.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You should do a show on that one. That would be an interesting one.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You should do a show on that one. That would be an interesting one.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

It's hard to really know, right? It's not like a provable fact. I would say at a certain point in time, she lost the confidence of the faculty. And that was ultimately the catalyst. And whether that was, how much of that was the plagiarism issue and how much of that was some of the things that preceded it, or was it all of these issues in their entirety?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

It's hard to really know, right? It's not like a provable fact. I would say at a certain point in time, she lost the confidence of the faculty. And that was ultimately the catalyst. And whether that was, how much of that was the plagiarism issue and how much of that was some of the things that preceded it, or was it all of these issues in their entirety?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

It's hard to really know, right? It's not like a provable fact. I would say at a certain point in time, she lost the confidence of the faculty. And that was ultimately the catalyst. And whether that was, how much of that was the plagiarism issue and how much of that was some of the things that preceded it, or was it all of these issues in their entirety?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

We don't really, there's no way to do a calculus. Can you explain the nature of this plagiarism from what you remember?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

We don't really, there's no way to do a calculus. Can you explain the nature of this plagiarism from what you remember?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

We don't really, there's no way to do a calculus. Can you explain the nature of this plagiarism from what you remember?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So Aaron Cerberium and Christopher Ruffo, one from the Free Beacon, and Chris, you know, surfaced some allegations on or identified some plagiarism issues that I would say the initial examples were, you know, use of the same words with proper attribution, some missing, you know, footnotes. And then over time...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So Aaron Cerberium and Christopher Ruffo, one from the Free Beacon, and Chris, you know, surfaced some allegations on or identified some plagiarism issues that I would say the initial examples were, you know, use of the same words with proper attribution, some missing, you know, footnotes. And then over time...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

So Aaron Cerberium and Christopher Ruffo, one from the Free Beacon, and Chris, you know, surfaced some allegations on or identified some plagiarism issues that I would say the initial examples were, you know, use of the same words with proper attribution, some missing, you know, footnotes. And then over time...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And with, I guess, more digging, they released, I think, ultimately something like 76 examples of what they call plagiarism in, I think, 8 of 11 of her articles. And one of the other things that came forth here is, as president of the university, she had sort of the thinnest transcript academically of any previous president. You know, very small, relatively small body of work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And with, I guess, more digging, they released, I think, ultimately something like 76 examples of what they call plagiarism in, I think, 8 of 11 of her articles. And one of the other things that came forth here is, as president of the university, she had sort of the thinnest transcript academically of any previous president. You know, very small, relatively small body of work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And with, I guess, more digging, they released, I think, ultimately something like 76 examples of what they call plagiarism in, I think, 8 of 11 of her articles. And one of the other things that came forth here is, as president of the university, she had sort of the thinnest transcript academically of any previous president. You know, very small, relatively small body of work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then when you couple that with the amount of plagiarism that was pervasive, and then I guess some of the other examples that surfaced were not missing quotation marks, where the authors of the work felt that their ideas had been stolen. And really, plagiarism is academic fraud. One indicia of plagiarism is a missing footnote. That could also be a clerical error.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then when you couple that with the amount of plagiarism that was pervasive, and then I guess some of the other examples that surfaced were not missing quotation marks, where the authors of the work felt that their ideas had been stolen. And really, plagiarism is academic fraud. One indicia of plagiarism is a missing footnote. That could also be a clerical error.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then when you couple that with the amount of plagiarism that was pervasive, and then I guess some of the other examples that surfaced were not missing quotation marks, where the authors of the work felt that their ideas had been stolen. And really, plagiarism is academic fraud. One indicia of plagiarism is a missing footnote. That could also be a clerical error.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And so when a professor is accused of plagiarism, university does sort of a deep dive. They have these administrative boards and it can take six months, nine months, a year to evaluate, you know, intent matters. Was this intentional theft of another person's idea? That's academic fraud. Or was this sloppy, you know, you missed or just humanity, right? You miss a footnote here or there.