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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

And they had identified four paragraphs in her 330-page dissertation where she had cited the author, but she had used the vast majority of the words in those paragraphs were from the author, and she should have used quotation marks. And then there was one case where she paraphrased correctly an author, but did not footnote that it was from his work.

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

And so we were presented with this and told they're going to publish in a few hours. And we're like, well, can we get to the next day? We're just about to head home. And they're like, no, we're publishing by noon. We need an answer by noon. And so we downloaded the copy of her thesis on like the slow internet. And, you know, Neri checked it out and she said, you know what?

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

And so we were presented with this and told they're going to publish in a few hours. And we're like, well, can we get to the next day? We're just about to head home. And they're like, no, we're publishing by noon. We need an answer by noon. And so we downloaded the copy of her thesis on like the slow internet. And, you know, Neri checked it out and she said, you know what?

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

And so we were presented with this and told they're going to publish in a few hours. And we're like, well, can we get to the next day? We're just about to head home. And they're like, no, we're publishing by noon. We need an answer by noon. And so we downloaded the copy of her thesis on like the slow internet. And, you know, Neri checked it out and she said, you know what?

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

It looks like they're right. And I said, look, you should just admit your mistake. And she wrote a very simple, gracious, yes, I should have used quotation marks. And on the author I failed to cite, she pointed out that she cited them eight other times and wrote a several paragraph section of her thesis acknowledging that. you know, his work.

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

It looks like they're right. And I said, look, you should just admit your mistake. And she wrote a very simple, gracious, yes, I should have used quotation marks. And on the author I failed to cite, she pointed out that she cited them eight other times and wrote a several paragraph section of her thesis acknowledging that. you know, his work.

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

It looks like they're right. And I said, look, you should just admit your mistake. And she wrote a very simple, gracious, yes, I should have used quotation marks. And on the author I failed to cite, she pointed out that she cited them eight other times and wrote a several paragraph section of her thesis acknowledging that. you know, his work.

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

Um, and none of these were like important parts of her thesis, but she acknowledged her mistake. And she said, you know, apologize for my mistake. And I apologize to the author who I failed to cite. And I stand on the shoulders of, uh, you know, all the people came before me and looking to advance work. And we sort of thought it was over. We head home. Um,

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

Um, and none of these were like important parts of her thesis, but she acknowledged her mistake. And she said, you know, apologize for my mistake. And I apologize to the author who I failed to cite. And I stand on the shoulders of, uh, you know, all the people came before me and looking to advance work. And we sort of thought it was over. We head home. Um,

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

Um, and none of these were like important parts of her thesis, but she acknowledged her mistake. And she said, you know, apologize for my mistake. And I apologize to the author who I failed to cite. And I stand on the shoulders of, uh, you know, all the people came before me and looking to advance work. And we sort of thought it was over. We head home. Um,

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

In flight on the way home, although we didn't realize this until we got back the following day, Business Insider published another article and said, Nary Oxman admits to plagiarism. Plagiarism, of course, is academic fraud. And this thing goes crazy viral. The title is Bill Ackman's Wife, Celebrity Academic Nary Oxman. And they use the term celebrity because...

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

In flight on the way home, although we didn't realize this until we got back the following day, Business Insider published another article and said, Nary Oxman admits to plagiarism. Plagiarism, of course, is academic fraud. And this thing goes crazy viral. The title is Bill Ackman's Wife, Celebrity Academic Nary Oxman. And they use the term celebrity because...

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

In flight on the way home, although we didn't realize this until we got back the following day, Business Insider published another article and said, Nary Oxman admits to plagiarism. Plagiarism, of course, is academic fraud. And this thing goes crazy viral. The title is Bill Ackman's Wife, Celebrity Academic Nary Oxman. And they use the term celebrity because...

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

There are limits to what legitimate media can go after, but celebrities, there's a lot more leeway in the media and what they can say. So that's why they call her a celebrity. First time ever she'd been called a celebrity. And they basically, she's admitting to academic fraud.

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

There are limits to what legitimate media can go after, but celebrities, there's a lot more leeway in the media and what they can say. So that's why they call her a celebrity. First time ever she'd been called a celebrity. And they basically, she's admitting to academic fraud.

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

There are limits to what legitimate media can go after, but celebrities, there's a lot more leeway in the media and what they can say. So that's why they call her a celebrity. First time ever she'd been called a celebrity. And they basically, she's admitting to academic fraud.

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

And then they said, and then the next day at 5.19 PM, I remember the timeline pretty well, an email was sent to Fran McGill saying, you know, we've identified, you know, two dozen other instances of plagiarism in her work. 15 of which are Wikipedia entries where she copied definitions. And the others were mostly software hardware manuals for various devices or software she used in her work.

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

And then they said, and then the next day at 5.19 PM, I remember the timeline pretty well, an email was sent to Fran McGill saying, you know, we've identified, you know, two dozen other instances of plagiarism in her work. 15 of which are Wikipedia entries where she copied definitions. And the others were mostly software hardware manuals for various devices or software she used in her work.

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

And then they said, and then the next day at 5.19 PM, I remember the timeline pretty well, an email was sent to Fran McGill saying, you know, we've identified, you know, two dozen other instances of plagiarism in her work. 15 of which are Wikipedia entries where she copied definitions. And the others were mostly software hardware manuals for various devices or software she used in her work.

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

Most of which were in footnotes where she described a nozzle for a 3D printer or something like this. And they said, we're publishing, you know, tonight. The email they sent to us was 6,900 words. It was 12 pages. It was practically indescribable. You couldn't even read it in an hour. And we didn't have some of the documents they were referring to.