Rand Paul Plagiarized Wikipedia in Speech

[ba1614]

It's funny how a bunch of people who always hated Rand Paul are saying that he's doomed. Rand Paul's doing fine among people who don't love socialism and big government.

Rand's doing fine among people who refuse to look at him critically, or question anything he says?

Yup.

lmfao, says the obamabot. Fucking hypocrites around here are astounding.

 

[paperview]

This won't hurt him at all. The plagiarism, that is.

He's a nut who is suggesting that we do not pursue science and he is using a sci-fi plot as his supporting evidence. The plagiarism is barely noticeable in all the stupid.

That's the delicious main course next to this crispy side dish O'Steal.

 

[JoeB131]

If you believe that a claim that Rand Paul plagiarized Wikipedia is going to be some sort of smoking gun against him, please hang your hat on that.

Naw, Rand Paul's biggest problem is that he's Crazier than Batshit.

 

[S.J.]

If you believe that a claim that Rand Paul plagiarized Wikipedia is going to be some sort of smoking gun against him, please hang your hat on that.

Naw, Rand Paul's biggest problem is that he's Crazier than Batshit.

Crazy by whose standard, yours?

 

[JoeB131]

If you believe that a claim that Rand Paul plagiarized Wikipedia is going to be some sort of smoking gun against him, please hang your hat on that.

Naw, Rand Paul's biggest problem is that he's Crazier than Batshit.

Crazy by whose standard, yours?

Or any other reasonable person who doesn't believe in talking snakes.

 

[Stephanie]

holy smokes, that is surly the most IMPORTANT thing going on today, forget all the other crap like, the failure of Obambamfailnocare

the petty you get off the Maddcow show folks

must deflect, distract, off the Obama, must deflect distract off the Obamafailnocare

we must we must we must

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Not a chance.
Now Obama's BS, that's a long list.

By all means, show us examples of Obama plagiarizing anything.

"You didn't build that! Liz Warren did"

 

[S.J.]

Naw, Rand Paul's biggest problem is that he's Crazier than Batshit.

Crazy by whose standard, yours?

Or any other reasonable person who doesn't believe in talking snakes.

I get what you're saying. He's crazy because you don't agree with him. Why didn't you just say so?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Somebody will change it for Paul on Wiki.

 

[JoeB131]

Crazy by whose standard, yours?

Or any other reasonable person who doesn't believe in talking snakes.

I get what you're saying. He's crazy because you don't agree with him. Why didn't you just say so?

No, because he apparently thinks the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional.

And that he thinks Obama is going to whack a family of four with his drones..

Or that universal health care makes Doctors into Slaves.

Rand Paul Is Really Crazy | New Republic

 

[S.J.]

Or any other reasonable person who doesn't believe in talking snakes.

I get what you're saying. He's crazy because you don't agree with him. Why didn't you just say so?

No, because he apparently thinks the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional.

And that he thinks Obama is going to whack a family of four with his drones..

Or that universal health care makes Doctors into Slaves.

Rand Paul Is Really Crazy | New Republic

I heard he also thinks everyone who didn't vote for Obama is a racist. No, wait, that was you. Never mind.

 

[JoeB131]

Well, aren't you?

because frankly, I haven't seen anyone who voted FOR Romney, just people who voted AGAINST Obama.

they just use code words like "Marxist", "Keynan" and "Birth Certificate".

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Somebody will change it for Paul on Wiki.

The preceding post was paid for by Organizing for Obama.

"I'm Barack Obama and I approve of Jake Starkey"

 

[flacaltenn]

I think you've got the wrong definition of plagiarize here.

You PLAGIARIZE the UNIQUE work and ideas of INDIVIDUALS. You don't plagiarize when you quote the Newtonian Laws of Motion or any other "COMMON KNOWLEDGE" topics..

Kinda sketchy since the olde Wiki is written FOR FREE by a MASS of anonymous people.. And no one page is neccessarily attributed to one individual or even really ATTRIBUTED --- is it?

I guess everything I learned as a teen reading the encyclopedia is plagiarism.. Who knew?
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In school, if you were asked to sum up Newton's laws and you started:

Newton's laws are applied to objects which are idealized as single point masses,in the sense that the size and shape of the object's body are neglected in order to focus on its motion more easily. This can be done when the object is small compared to the distances involved in its analysis, or the deformation and rotation of the body are of no importance. In this way, even a planet can be idealized as a particle for analysis of its orbital motion around a star.
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You think your teacher would let it pass? No. That's word for word from Wiki. Those are not your words. That's plagiarized.

What Maddow and (maybe) you KNOW but tend to ignore is this..

The UNIQUE structural innovation in Wikis is the NEW authoring and editing process.. It uses CONSENSUS KNOWLEDGE to slowly and methodically construct a topic.

BY DEFINITION -- nothing persists in a Wiki unless it agrees with a majority statement on that topic.
So it would be almost impossible for an individual to RESTATE anything on that topic factually WITHOUT it being almost identical to the consensus opinion.. Especially crap like the plot of a movie.

And Maddow KNOWS better. But needs to fill time with political crap rather than addressing the failures of her populous Social Revolution and leadership.

As for your fictious classroom example.. A SMART teacher would be THRILLED to get that response. And wouldn't CARE whether the kid got it from the Wiki or a college textbook on Physics. If it appeared in a proper academic paper tho --- it would require an attribution, because science papers are anal about that.

K-12 science doesn't require unique restatements of basic science facts. A command of knowledge is more important than in which of 1000s of AGREEING SOURCES, that knowledge was gained.

If anything --- a smart teacher would QUIZ them on command of the knowledge to verify UNDERSTANDING of the quote.

 

[paperview]

Oh good lord. Tell me flaca, were you homeschooled?

 

[flacaltenn]

Oh good lord. Tell me flaca, were you homeschooled?

So you DIDN'T know how Wikis are made or what CONSENSUS OPINION implies??

 

[paperview]

Hey chump, all sorts of encyclopedic works are consensus opinions and facts, as well as a world of other material -- it doesn't make the unattributed use of someone else's words and ideas ethical.

Geezuz. Are you seriously making a case for plagiarism?

All he had to do in this case was say....'as Wikipedia noted'...covered. To claim the words as his own is the issue.

 

[Stephanie]

Oh good lord. Tell me flaca, were you homeschooled?

was that necessary ?
you people in attacking people's education
it's a sickness with you uppity asses when you can't come up with anything else on the topic

 

[paperview]

The dude is saying a teacher would be thrilled if you were asked to sum up Newtons law and you copied word for word from Wiki.

That's just insane.

 

[Stephanie]

Everyone knows or those with a brain knows that Wiki can manipulated