A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying. According to the experts, each passage violated Princeton’s academic integrity policies but varied in severity.
I don’t think plagiarism matters in general. Information should be free after all. There are far more damming things Hegseth has done that should be called out instead.
It’s not about information being free it’s about who this information is being credited to.
If I tell you I had the best idea ever and should be rewarded for it, it definitely matters if I just heard my neighbours talking and repeat what they thought of.
Terrible take. An inability to remember and report where your ideas came from is both a character problem and a sign of mental deficits. This guy can literally order the death of thousands of people on a whim. I would like to feel assured he is firing on all cylinders.