So depressing:
I have no trouble saying with a straight face that habitual cheating in subjects where knowledge is concrete, technical and cumulative will eventually have disastrous consequences for the cheater. When it comes to writing or humanistic knowledge? Well, there’s more than a few professors who’ve gotten away with plagiarism in the last decade, after all. There are non-fiction authors and journalists who’ve had whole careers stuffed full of fabulism and misrepresentation and never had to pay any price for it. I’ve known people who’ve written reports for governments or think tanks who’ve spotted blatant plagiarism in the work of peers and known that it was pointless to call attention to it.
