Quote Originally Posted by HighPopalorum
I speak only for myself, but I think you chose a particularly poor example. What Biden did was not that big a deal. What Scott did was. I'm not an expert, but I've taught enough college and high school courses to be able to chart the gray area between insufficient citation or errors in citation and outright plagiarism. I'll readily grant you there is hypocrisy on both sides, but the issue you raise about Biden does not illustrate that hypocrisy in a meaningful way.

We're way off topic, but maybe that mod won't notice. I like these conversations, particularly when they remain civil.
I guess your education background might explain why you insist on staying with the example I posted.

I'll happily agree that it isn't the best example, and I'm sure there tons of better examples out there regarding hypocrisy, but the biden/mcinnis comparison was an easy grab, since I didn't do any research.

I'll agree also, that this issue with biden isn't a big deal, while the issue with mcinnis seems to be more.

I guess I would say that this would better compare to an issue like ward churchill, but he was a paid, tenured (i think) so he was held to a higher standard.

As I understand it, mcinnis isn't a water expert and had no business acting as an authority, but it's not like he presented himself as such. I think it was that foundation supporting a candidate they liked, so they paid him to write a paper. I don't think either party cared much about the content. I could be wrong though.