[W]e don't need to understand the subject matter to know that creating false identities to try to smear someone is sleazy.
The Tablet Mag article linked by "Hot Corn" above states:
In 1993, Avi Katzman, an Israeli journalist, published an interview in Haaretz in which he pushed Schiffman on the similarities between his work and Golb�s previous writings.
�But you also, in different articles that you published, have not hesitated to appropriate portions of Golb�s theory without acknowledging as much, and without giving him appropriate credit,� Katzman asserted.
�This isn�t the issue,� Schiffman responded. �There�s no innovation in Golb�s theory. � Golb can say what he wants... Does he think that he wrote the Bible?�
Some of the commentators on the various sites discussing this scandal don't seem to get it. If Schiffman had been seen molesting a child, would it have been sleazy to create "false identities" and send out a confession of child molestation in his name? Would that be a "smear"?
Either some of the commentators don't feel that plagiarism is a serious issue, or they assume that Katzman's accusations of plagiarism are false, and hence a "smear."
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The Tablet Mag article linked by "Hot Corn" above states:
Some of the commentators on the various sites discussing this scandal don't seem to get it. If Schiffman had been seen molesting a child, would it have been sleazy to create "false identities" and send out a confession of child molestation in his name? Would that be a "smear"?
Either some of the commentators don't feel that plagiarism is a serious issue, or they assume that Katzman's accusations of plagiarism are false, and hence a "smear."