WTF is it with Harvard and plagiarists? Well I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Harvard is where Mark Zuckerberg went and stole the idea for Facebook from the Winklevoss twins, so I guess that’s the thing (aside from anti-Semitism) at Harvard. Move over Claudine Gay, as Harvard’s “diversity chief” Sherri Charleston is the latest person from Harvard to be accused of plagiarism. And guess who Sherri plagiarized? None other than her husband LaVar Charleston!
The complaint alleged that Sherri Charleston plagiarized 40 passages throughout her works, including in her 2009 dissertation and her single peer-reviewed paper, The Washington Free Beacon first reported. Charleston allegedly did not properly cite almost a dozen scholars when quoting or paraphrasing in her dissertation, and she is accused of re-using a portion of a 2012 study published by her husband, LaVar Charleston, in the peer-reviewed article, which was coauthored by LaVar, according to the complaint. (RELATED: Elite University Donor Pledges To Pull Funding, Calls On President To Resign Over Diversity, Equity And Inclusion)
LaVar Charleston is the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to his webpage.
“The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit,” Peter Wood, head of the National Association of Scholars, told the Beacon. “This is research fraud pure and simple.”