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I can’t believe Rossi wouldn’t cite you or at least acknowledge you in some note in her publication! And to say the value of your blog is “nil” while copying your work (including your commentary) is beyond parody… Entitled academia strikes again!

Merry Christmas :), your blog is fascinating and I’ll read through some of the other posts too!

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If I had to guess, I'd assume that's because properly citing would out her as not having done a bunch of the work she claimed to have done i.e. actual research.

Everything else reads like classic misdirection of someone caught red-handed.

Cases of this type are rarely isolated incidents.

I think a thorough examination of Rossi's scholarship would be in order.

Someone should post a link to the blog somewhere where the experts on the topic would see it. Like, if this was a machine learning blog, posting it on r/MachineLearning could destroy the offender’s academic reputation.

I wonder to what extent the assistant quoted in the post is writing things that Rossi would not? Maybe they’d agree, and maybe the lack of acknowledgment in the book speaks for itself, but I think it’s jumping the gun a bit to attribute things from this professor’s secretary to the professor herself. Presumably if you’re a professor’s secretary then part of your job when talking to journalists, etc, is making the professor and therefore the university look important.

It’s a shame the article didn’t have a comment directly from Rossi but maybe they tried to get one and failed.

… or maybe the assistant doesn’t exist at all.

The best route, IMHO, would have been for Rossi to credit blog-author as a co-author. Win-win.

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