DCP's ongoing problem with plagiarism

[_Philo Sofee]

I now have 10 single-spaced pages in a Word file. It contains side-by-side columns, showing plagiarized text segments from multiple Interpreter articles dating back to 2012, authored by Daniel C. Peterson.

This includes:
* Unattributed, self-plagiarized articles from older Deseret News columns (slightly altered, mostly word-for-word, some up to 7 years after first print)
* Unattributed, self-plagiarized FARMS article, presented and then printed as if original work, 2 years after first print
* Examples of unattributed, stolen sentences and paragraphs from places such as etymonline.com and wikipedia.com

I can only imagine what might happen if this appalling pattern of academic dishonesty were perpetrated by another BYU professor who wasn't being paid to spend the majority of every working day engaged in the dirty work of Mopologetics. It must be good to have the brethren at one's back, but I doubt any of them are aware of the taint being leaked onto BYU and its valuable degree programs.

Oh sure they are aware of it. Jesus tells them everything. He's just put the qabosh on doing anything about it because after all......hee, hee, it IS spreading his Gospel..... :rolleyes: "The glory of God is plagiarism."

[Guest]

Dr. Moore,

If you wouldn’t mind sharing some of those examples it’d be, well, delightful.

- Doc

[_Philo Sofee]

Kiwi57 Dr. Exiled • 11 hours ago • edited
Darn. I was going to point out that Exiled's fellow haters merely drew a bull's-eye around anything Dan wrote that wasn't footnoted, and howled about "plagiarism."

But Dan has edited out his libel, so I suppose I'd better not.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... oices.html

Kiwi apparently has not read this thread, where every case of plagiarism noted is documented.

Kiwi doesn't have to read anything, he has the Holy Ghost to teach him the truth... and the love of Jesus to spread the Gospel of love..... :rolleyes: After all, Jesus was an asshole to the world in his day (uh, it actually is well documented incidentally, I'm just sayinnnnnn), so his followers can follow his example and excuse their assholery with "if it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!"

[Guest]

Didn't Coach copy a Wikipedia entry, almost word for word, without attribution, for a DN article? I remember seeing, I think it was Tom, put up the comparison a while ago. However, I can't find it. [Found Tom's comment on page 3 of this thread]

[_Lemmie]

Speaking of the Deseret News, I am reposting below some quotes from a DesNews article where they explained their policy. This post is from page 8 of this thread. Notice the very first quote from the DesNews article:

from the links Tom gave:

Several paragraphs in that column erroneously failed to use quotation marks to properly attribute their source as an article written for the New York Times by Adam Grant. Grant's article was directly referenced at the opening and close of the Eyres' column.

So, even though the Grant article was referenced at the beginning and end of the column, the Deseret News considers that the lack of quotation marks within the column indicated a failure to properly attribute the source.

The Deseret News demands accuracy in attribution and sourcing. We require our columnists to submit articles that are original and accurate in content and style. The Eyres have acknowledged the seriousness of this error and have assured us this was an inadvertent oversight.

Inadvertent, in that unlike Peterson's approach, after the plagiarism was noticed, the plagiarism didn't happen again and again and again?

Given the seriousness of this mistake we have taken the following steps. We have removed the column from DeseretNews.com. The Deseret News and the Eyres have formally apologized to the New York Times and Mr. Grant. Finally, we are conducting further review of this incident and our processes.

We offer sincere apologies to both The New York Times and Mr. Grant.

So the seriousness of the mistake requires 1) the column being removed, 2) a formal apology to the plagiarized author and their publisher, and 3) further review.

Clearly Peterson doesn't deal with reports of his own plagiarism this professionally, but one would assume that his columns in the DesNews surely must be held to their standard.

Deseret News link: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/765 ... tml?pg=all

Note that the bolded part, which Deseret News considers plagiarism, is exactly what Peterson is now arguing is NOT plagiarism.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Dr. Moore,

Are you talking about this one?

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithprom ... eret-news/

http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/ ... P-RJH1.pdf

- Doc

[_Dr Moore]

Someone at the Deseret News ought to take a look at Dr. Peterson's Interpreter articles, in that case.

Here is a summary. If you go find the full copied text, it fills 10 pages side-by-side in Word. That is a lot of material to pass off as original writing through a single outlet. Perhaps by the time Interpreter and/or Deseret News catches on, Dr. Peterson will have properly fixed his intentional absent mindedness, but something tells me that true professional rehabilitation will take a heavy hand.

https://www.deseret.com/2013/2/10/20448 ... -to-a-rock
(Feb 2013)

was self-plagiarized without attribution, almost entirely, in

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... he-gospel/
(Volume 32, 2019)

and

https://www.deseret.com/2014/1/30/20533 ... ons-of-god
(Jan 2014)

was self-plagiarized without attribution, almost entirely, in

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... he-gospel/
(Volume 32, 2019)

and

https://www.deseret.com/2013/4/25/20518 ... inevitable
(Apr 2013)

was self-plagiarized without attribution, peppered with minor revisions, in

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... of-giants/
(Volume 4, May 2013)

And a few more notables:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/fa ... 00ix?seq=1
(2010)

was heavily re-used in presented form, with only a single footnote pointing to one argument with Lloyd Ericson, made in the 2010 article above, but no citation is provided for the massive amounts (nearly HALF of the article) of other text lifted wholly from that same article and presented as if original work. The FAIR presentation was later published by Interpreter, in

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... n-studies/
(Volume 4, May 2013)

again, with no citation for massive amounts of self-plagiarized text, under the following header:

The following essay was presented on 3 August 2012 as “Of ‘Mormon Studies’ and Apologetics” at the conclusion of the annual conference of the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research (FAIR) in Sandy, Utah. It represents the first public announcement and appearance of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, which had been founded only slightly more than a week earlier, on 26 July. In my view, that rapid launch was the near-miraculous product of selfless collaboration and devotion to a cause on the part of several people—notable among them David E. Bokovoy, Alison V. P. Coutts, William J. Hamblin, Bryce M. Haymond, Louis C. Midgley, George L. Mitton, Stephen D. Ricks, and Mark Alan Wright—and I’m profoundly grateful to them. This essay, which may even have some slight historical value, is something of a personal charter statement regarding that cause. It is published here with no substantial alteration.

Clearly Peterson didn't get the visibility he desired for his 2010 article, so rather than summarize the salient points, he just lifted whole sections of the original and passed them off as new work. Evidently, neither the folks at FAIR, nor those at Interpreter, noticed or minded.

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice
The winter solstice, hiemal solstice or hibernal solstice, also known as midwinter, occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere (Northern and Southern). For that hemisphere, the winter solstice is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.

was plagiarized without attribution, in

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... e-to-grow/
(Volume 34, 2020)
The winter solstice occurs when one of Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. (Accordingly, it happens twice annually, once in the northern hemisphere and once in the southern.) For those in the northern hemisphere, it is the day when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky and the day with the year’s shortest period of daylight and the year’s longest night.

and

https://www.etymonline.com/word/compassion
Latin compassio is an ecclesiastical loan-translation of Greek sympatheia

was plagiarized without attribution, in

https://journal.interpreterfoundation.o ... he-gospel/
(Vol 32, 2019)
In its turn, Latin compassio is a fairly late ecclesiastical loan-translation of the Greek word sympatheia

[_Dr Moore]

https://interpreterfoundation.org/submissions/

Citation Sources: All of the articles we publish are thoroughly source-checked.

Unless you happen to be Daniel C. Peterson?

[_Lemmie]

If someone is still looking for plagiarized Deseret News posts from Peterson, here is one which I posted in this thread Dec, 20, 2019. Peterson’s exact, word for word plagiarisms are in blue.

In 2017, Business Insider published an article by Kate Taylor, titled:

How KFC made Christmas all about fried chicken — in Japan

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-kfc ... an-2016-12

In his Deseret News column published December 19, 2019, Dan Peterson plagiarized from the Business Insider article.

https://www.deseret.com/2019/12/19/2102 ... -japan-kfc

Below are the parts of the article plagiarized by Peterson, followed by the portion of his column containing the plagiarism. The words in blue are taken, word for word, from the Business Insider article, with no attribution.

Even worse, in my opinion, is the phrase in blue that I have enlarged: “filled the void...”

Not only did Peterson plagiarize this quote from the Business Insider article, he also left off the quotation marks and attribution from that article. The phrase comes from the comments of professor Joonas Rokka. Kate Taylor, in the Business Insider article, properly quoted and attributed the statement.

Peterson did neither, in effect plagiarizing within his plagiarism.


From the Business Insider article:

KFC has become a Christmas tradition in Japan.

This is largely thanks to Takeshi Okawara, who managed the first KFC restaurant in Japan. These days, Japanese people could end up waiting in long lines if they don't pre-order their Christmas meals from KFC.

Here's a look back at how KFC became a Christmas tradition in Japan.

...Since only about 1% to 2% of the Japanese population is Christian, the country didn't have many established Christmas traditions.

...KFC helped build secular and commercial traditions with the simple message: "At Christmas, you eat chicken."

...At many Japanese Christmas parties, KFC is just one part of the Christmas feast.

Across the country, KFC locations dress Colonel Sanders up in Santa Claus gear for the holiday season.

And from Peterson’s column, his plagiarism of the BI article. Exactly worded plagiarism is in blue :

In Japan, where estimates put the number of Christians somewhere between 1%-2% of the population or perhaps even lower, a quite secularized version of Christmas focused on Santa Claus and gift-giving is widely observed.

Also prominent among Japanese Christmas traditions is eating fried chicken from KFC, where the statues of Colonel Sanders that stand in front of KFC restaurants are dressed as Santa Claus during the holiday season. Japanese people who don’t pre-order their KFC Christmas dinners can end up waiting in long lines for them, and could miss out altogether.

“Why KFC?” you might ask.

Form the BI article:

KFC's Christmas promotion was the brainchild of Takeshi Okawara, who managed the first KFC restaurant in Japan. He would go on to become CEO of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan from 1984 to 2002.

Just a few months after the first KFC opened in Japan in 1970, Okawara had the idea to sell a Christmas "party barrel," inspired by the elaborate American turkey dinner, but with fried chicken instead of turkey.

The promotion went national in Japan in 1974 under the name Kurisumasu ni Washington Kentakkii: Kentucky for Christmas.

The party barrel campaign "filled a void," Joonas Rokka, associate professor of marketing at the Emlyon Business School in France, told the BBC. "There was no tradition of Christmas in Japan, and so KFC came in and said, this is what you should do on Christmas."

... Premium barrels include options such as ribs or roast chicken with stuffing.

You can even pair your party barrel with Christmas wine that's sold at the fast-food chain.

DCP’s plagiarism, again exactly worded plagiarism in blue:

In 1970, just a few months after Takeshi Okawara opened the first KFC restaurant in Japan —he would go on to become the CEO of Kentucky Fried Chicken Japan from 1984-2002 — he conceived the idea of a Christmas “party barrel” containing not only chicken but, in some premium cases, ribs and stuffing and cake and even wine.

In 1974, the promotional campaign went national with the slogan “Kurisumasu ni Washington Kentakkii” (“Kentucky for Christmas”).

Since, in the 1970s, there were few if any traditional Japanese Christmas observances, KFC filled a void.

[_Jersey Girl]

DanielPeterson Mod Kiwi57 • 10 hours ago

She claimed, perhaps accurately, that the identification was inaccurate. Since it came from "Smokey," that may well be true -- although his identifications were accurate in the cases where I knew them already.

:rolleyes: Again with the stupid, Daniel? Of course his other identifications were accurate. The whole posting world knows those just from reading these boards and paying attention. :rolleyes: You ought to try it instead of gobbling up every crumb someone throws at you without checking the source itself. He's just lucky he didn't step in it entirely and publish Kiwi57's identity as if it were breaking news.

You and yours failed to consider the source in the Chino Blanco incident. You failed to consider it now. Had you or yours over there, read through Smokey's posting history here you'd see that you're being played by a crackpot with cursory knowledge that most any lurker could collect.

Here's an idea. When Pahoran comes over on his next trip to check his private messages here at the Sty (like he did within the last 3 months-ish or so) let him check out Smokey's posting history. You know he acts like he's your wingman without actually being your wingman because if he truly were, he'd have already done that for you so what good is he anyway?

Do you never tire of making a fool of yourself in full public view? Do you not tire of those around you giving the appearance of loyalty where none exists? You guys are some of the laziest non-thinkers I've ever seen. How could someone like you presumably climb the ranks of academia and emerge with no street smarts at all?

It would've taken Pahoran all of 10 minutes to research Smokey as a source. 10 lousy minutes and the man didn't lift so much as a finger to do it because he's too invested in trading barbs like it's his job. But no. You took it from a stranger without considering or researching your source, you gobbled it up and once more, made yourself look desperate and insecure.

How much personal embarrassment could have been avoided if you only had a little help from your friends?