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Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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gigatexal wrote: post #7
isoprophlex wrote: post #4

Whoa, that's thorough. Damning, easily replicable, overwhelming evidence that this guy is indeed a fraud. > He runs the Self Publishing Formula course and podcast, he talks at the 20BooksTo50K conference in Vegas, and he’s part of a new initiative called Fuse Publishing. He’s a pretty big deal in self-publishing, so what he does reflects on self-publishing as a whole. Like instagram "buy my course to learn how I got…

Oh these guys are so exhausting. My favorite was Grant Cardone — the real estate mogul who’s said he’d be ashamed if he made 400k a year. All of them and his ilk peddling this you can get rich fast stuff are disgusting.

Aren't some of these schemes actually possible but only if you are a scumbags? It's somehow always get a ballon mortgage to buy multi-family housing and raise the rents by 100%, or buy dilapidated shacks and get section 8 money while putting nothing in to improve squalid conditions.

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by sesm »

matsemann wrote: post #63

Off topic, but on Friday the minister of Science and Higher Education in Norway had to step down, after someone found out about 22 % of her master thesis was plagiarized. Why did someone look into this? Because she and her department is taking a case against a student to our highest court about "self plagiarism", which everyone thinks is unfair. So quite ironic she was the real plagiarist. And then media jumped on th…

Isn't it a common practice for one's Masters/PhD thesis to be a compilation of several articles that were published while working on the thesis?

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by vorticalbox »

malfist wrote: post #89
toxik wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You cannot copy from yourself. Reusing material and passing it off as new, no matter its author, is plagiarism.

I'm sorry but what? If I can't grant myself rights to my work, then who can?

I believe the key point is > passing it off as new

If you're not doing that then I would assume it's fine?

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by skywhopper »

sesm wrote: post #92
matsemann wrote: post #63

Off topic, but on Friday the minister of Science and Higher Education in Norway had to step down, after someone found out about 22 % of her master thesis was plagiarized. Why did someone look into this? Because she and her department is taking a case against a student to our highest court about "self plagiarism", which everyone thinks is unfair. So quite ironic she was the real plagiarist. And then media jumped on th…

Isn't it a common practice for one's Masters/PhD thesis to be a compilation of several articles that were published while working on the thesis?

Depends on the school and program granting the PhD. There are various policies, and it’s a controversial subject overall.

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by faet »

isoprophlex wrote: post #4

Whoa, that's thorough. Damning, easily replicable, overwhelming evidence that this guy is indeed a fraud. > He runs the Self Publishing Formula course and podcast, he talks at the 20BooksTo50K conference in Vegas, and he’s part of a new initiative called Fuse Publishing. He’s a pretty big deal in self-publishing, so what he does reflects on self-publishing as a whole. Like instagram "buy my course to learn how I got…

This is a huge issue in self publishing. Sure, some people got lucky and can churn out a book a month and make decent money. But so many more sell books/courses on 'how to make money'.

Some will show you their revenue, "I'm a six figure author!" But frequently hide how much they spend on ads or editing. Or try to hide that they're making ~$50k on courses/affiliate sales and their net is... ~$50k. Writing is a net zero income for them and most of it is just used to sell courses/products.

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by ghaff »

MattGaiser wrote: post #83
Erratic6576 wrote: post #56

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I’ve heard that about self-plagiarism and I think it’s idiotic. You should be able to reuse your own sentences or ideas. Specially ideas. Which cannot be copyrighted (yet). Somebody show cage Michael Tomasello right now. Open any of his books and you’ll see a series of self-plagiarism sentences. I now think he’s just a genius because he’s investigated his field in depth

I assume it is a combo of schools wanting to extract more original output and wanting to know precisely where an idea originated/was originally published, i.e. which paper. But happily it is not a concept outside academia.

I don't know. When I give a presentation I try to credit people for major ideas or other contributions. If I didn't it probably wouldn't be taken nearly as seriously as in an academic context but it's still a good practice.

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by yrro »

malfist wrote: post #89
toxik wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You cannot copy from yourself. Reusing material and passing it off as new, no matter its author, is plagiarism.

I'm sorry but what? If I can't grant myself rights to my work, then who can?

It's fine to re-use your own work as long as you cite. If you don't site then you're plagiarising yourself.

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

tyingq wrote: post #70
LudwigNagasena wrote: post #53

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Artificially inflating sales numbers to get higher on bestseller lists seems like an intentional deception to secure unfair gain. How is that not fraud?

There's no automatic connection from immoral to illegal. I can think of lots of intentional deception that secures unfair gain that is not illegal.

I was under the impression that fraud is fraud regardless of whether it is illegal or simply immoral. (Not a native speaker.)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fraud

> 1. (law) The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.

> 2. Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.

> ...

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by uxp100 »

toxik wrote: post #74
smeej wrote: post #72

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I got accused of plagiarizing myself once, and I've never even figured out what that phrase means. Isn't the assumption supposed to be that anything I haven't cited is my idea? What does it matter if it's not the first time I had the idea? It's not less mine because I still have it. I could sort of understand if I had published it somewhere and somehow given rights to it to another party, but this was just some rando…

You cannot copy from yourself. Reusing material and passing it off as new, no matter its author, is plagiarism.

As a student anyway. Self plagiarism is a controversial topic in other circumstances. Many academics feel that if they described some element of an experiment some way it’s because that’s the best way they could imagine. If they do the experiment in some other way, or write up something for other publications or whatever it would be absurd to not take their own sentences if they want.

Re: I believe bestselling author Mark Dawson is a serial plagiarist

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Post by ColinWright »

malfist wrote: post #89
toxik wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You cannot copy from yourself. Reusing material and passing it off as new, no matter its author, is plagiarism.

I'm sorry but what? If I can't grant myself rights to my work, then who can?

Plagiarism is not the same as copyright infringement. It's about passing off material as new when it isn't.

You can quote any previous work, others and/or your own, but you must highlight/identify it as such.

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