Bill Ackman vows plagiarism checks on MIT president and faculty after wife pulled into fray: 'We will share our findings

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In the first post you responded to: (Disclaimer: there are, of course, very good writers in STEM fields, and there's a lot of terrible writing in the humanities, but the general point holds).

The claim is not that she's in STEM, but that she has a similar approach to writing as many STEM faculty: that they are merely "writing up the results," as if the writing is secondary to and less important than the real research. That was the claim of some of her supporters in her defense. I maintain that that holds for many faculty in the social sciences in the same way that it does for many STEM faculty, and it's a problem. I value your vigorous defense of your field, and your first-hand experience, of course . Try to imagine that you're not the only one who has some, though.