After the original CNN KFile report on plagiarism in Monica Crowley’s 2012, Politico reported plagiarism in her PhD dissertation. HarperCollins then pulled the book from the shelves. Today, Andrew Kaczynski has found even more plagiarism in the dissertation.
I have never seen anything quite like this. I have a hard time believing that Columbia University won’t take some kind of action about it. If Kaczynski’s work is accurate, it looks like thousands of words and scores of passages have been taken from sources, sometimes with inadequate citation and other times with no citation at all. In many cases, an undergraduate would fail with a paper like this. At the least, the paper would have to be redone probably with grade reduction.