#it feels like somerton came into my house and shat on the carpet
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In case anyone of you has been following the reveal of James Somerton's fragrant Plagiarism via Hbomberguy's "Plagiarism and You(Tube)
James Somerton has released a second response video, which may be more collected and calm, but he mentions his diagnosis with epilepsy and therefore the memory issues he suffers from as a reason for how the rampant continous plagiarism was possible to happen over and over again.
I believe him in saying he has memory issues. (I also believe him that he got fired because of his epilepsy, because sadly this is a very common occurence!)
I personally am not convinced, that memory issues cause you do copy-paste entire books and a multitude of articles into a script, close the doc, open the doc the next day and go "wow i definitely wrote all that, let me read it into the camera".
I don't remember a lot of the things I am saying, especially in verbal communication. Friends quote me back constantly and a lot of times I don't remember, I can only say "this sounds like something I would say".
My memory is very bad at times, and terribly accurate at others.
I know there are different types of memory issues.
But I can not - for the life of me - ESPECIALLY when I know I have these issues, imagine that someone with memory issues does not include pasting a link to the SOURCE of the text they are copying into their word.
I also am pretty sure, one would recognise their own writing style, even when not remembering writing something... especially in like - longform text formats.
I think also - when having a co-author, I would lean towards asking the co-author to check my writing for instances of accidental plagiarism, in order to stop it from happening (again).
But maybe this is just me. Am I being overly harsh here?
I don't want to shoot against someone who is also epileptic without reason. Please share your thoughts.
#james somerton#youtube#actually epileptic#epilepsy#memory issues#it feels like somerton came into my house and shat on the carpet#like idk it doesnt feel plausible that the memory issues are the cause of this level of plagiarism and it just upsets me#hbomberguy
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