Ben Carson’s book is full of plagiarism and could be pulled from shelves [View all]

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Ben Carson has yet another problem in the honesty department. After a week in which many of the claims he’s made in his books about his personal life in his various books have been exposed as phony, the issue has been compounded by the fact that long sections of one of the books have been copied and pasted from other people’s work. The issue is serious enough that the publishing house is now being forced to reconsider the books based on their apparent plagiarism.

Carson’s 2012 book, America the Beautiful, contains instances of plagiarism from at least three different sources, including one conservative website and two books written by other authors. The irony here may be that in his book, Carson admits that he was caught plagiarizing other people’s work in a similar manner while he was in college. It now appears that he failed to learn his lesson. Harper Collins says it’s reviewing the matter. In many instances books are removed from store shelves, and then sometimes later replaced with a new version giving proper credit, while other times simply abandoned. But the controversy surrounding his books is just getting started.

Various major news outlets have investigated the strange and often violent personal claims which Ben Carson has made in his books about his childhood and past, and none of them could find any evidence that any of the incidents really happened. So it turns out Carson’s books are a combination of fake personal stories he made up out of thin air, and real stories he plagiarized from other authors. Yet he’s nonetheless a republican frontrunner.

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