On rampant plagiarism, all in the past, “What difference does it make, anyway?”*
They write BS read only by pro-BSers and nobody really cares, not nearly as much as they care about race, sex, orientation. And that the “research” mostly supports the desired narrative.

The luxury beliefs of so many elite are public lies. “Marriage is optional” but most elite are married. “Defund the police” while living in the most crime-free areas, often with private security. “Lower Black IQs have little or no genetic basis” — but most know this is a lie, tho any white who says it is a supremacist.

So many lies from so many elites so often.
Again appreciation to Neo for her truth orientation.

*My memory of Hillary’s defense of lying.

Dominance and Submission is the music in the background, apropos. Blue Oyster Cult.

https://www.steynonline.com/14039/opening-statement

We were discussing the decline of literature. He recalled an occasion he met with a student as her faculty advisor. He discovered she had read “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” for her English 102 class. She wasn’t even required to finish the book.

M. kept his dismay to himself, He had seen the writing on the wall for the decline in standards and the increase in forced conformity. He was happy to retire.

–Richard Aubrey

I have a pet theory that academics are, in part, seduced by postmodernism and critical studies because those fields provide opportunities for academics to say something that hasn’t been said many times already and probably better.

Likewise modern art.

Probably astronomy and paleoanthropology offer the possibility of discovering the genuinely new. But that’s a struggle, too. See Pattison, “Fossil Men”.

I’d think that, instead of plagiarizing something, quoting and citing it as a way of displaying one’s mad research skills would get you more points and less trouble. Then explain why it fits your thinking. Which it would, anyway, if it were close enough to be worth plagiarizing.