{"id":36,"date":"2009-11-10T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10083047.post-5064558339021096607"},"modified":"2009-11-11T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:12:00","slug":"gladwell-hatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/10\/gladwell-hatin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladwell hatin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some red meat for readers, <a href=\"http:\/\/religionsetspolitics.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/malcolm-gladwell-memes-and-intellectual.html\">Malcolm Gladwell, Memes and Intellectual Honesty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gladwell comes across as a child trying to explain why his hand was in the cookie jar. He advances a series of unconvincing, somewhat contradictory explanations, hoping that we will ignore the larger problem. So far as I can tell from Google searching, this strategy has worked; people have noted that Gladwell is talking about memes but no one has called him out for his failure to acknowledge this prior work. This isn&#8217;t acceptable. Gladwell&#8217;s behavior is intellectually dishonest. His failure to credit Dawkins or others who have thought about these ideas before him does a disservice to those individuals and to honest intellectual discourse. I don&#8217;t think Gladwell&#8217;s behavior constitutes plagiarism, but it certainly would be punished if it occurred in an academic setting. Failure to cite prior work results in a paper being rejected from any legitimate journal. If a student hands in an assignment that fails to cite prior work, the student receives a bad grade, if not outright failure. Gladwell owes his readers and Richard Dawkins an apology for his failure to acknowledge that Gladwell&#8217;s idea recycles Dawkins&#8217;s earlier work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/10083047-5064558339021096607?l=www.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some red meat for readers, Malcolm Gladwell, Memes and Intellectual Honesty:Gladwell comes across as a child trying to explain why his hand was in the cookie jar. He advances a series of unconvincing, somewhat contradictory explanations, hoping that we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}