I challenge the idea that it is even possible to plagiarise an Acknowledgements section. It’s not a substantive section of the work and has no bearing on the work itself. In addition, boilerplate is not only extremely common for Acknowledgements, for a paper it’s essentially required. All of the acknowledgement sections of my papers are basically identical, and are basically identical to all of my colleagues on the same funding, because that’s how it works. Did we plagiarise each other or our supervisor by saying “This study was supported by ERC Horizon 2030 grant no. Xxxxxx, The Extremely Solid Study (TESS)”?
Without that article actually showing what was supposedly plagiarised in her acknowledgements, I don’t buy it.
"But her papers sometimes lift passages verbatim from other scholars and at other times make minor adjustments, like changing the word “adage” to “popular saying” or “Black male children” to “young black athletes.” - New York Times
I challenge the idea that it is even possible to plagiarise an Acknowledgements section. It’s not a substantive section of the work and has no bearing on the work itself. In addition, boilerplate is not only extremely common for Acknowledgements, for a paper it’s essentially required. All of the acknowledgement sections of my papers are basically identical, and are basically identical to all of my colleagues on the same funding, because that’s how it works. Did we plagiarise each other or our supervisor by saying “This study was supported by ERC Horizon 2030 grant no. Xxxxxx, The Extremely Solid Study (TESS)”?
Without that article actually showing what was supposedly plagiarised in her acknowledgements, I don’t buy it.
Well Google works but just because I care here’s a link to some other examples of clear plagiarism you will find an excuse to ignore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/claudine-gay-harvard-president-excerpts.html
"But her papers sometimes lift passages verbatim from other scholars and at other times make minor adjustments, like changing the word “adage” to “popular saying” or “Black male children” to “young black athletes.” - New York Times