Academia is committed to clearing Jason Arday of plagiarism, despite the overwhelming evidence against him.
The Byline Times reports that the academic publisher Taylor and Francis concluded a second probe into Jason Arday that did not substantiate the plagiarism accusations made against him, marking the fourth institutional inquiry to reach the same exculpating conclusion. Thus far, the inquiries have cleared Arday by assessing that he copied text accidentally without malicious intent; the duplicative passages were in portions like the introduction or literature review rather than the central body of the work; he was “autistic,” and therefore something like replication was part of his learning process; and/or he lacked proper supervision from his respective institution. Taylor and ...
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