Florian Ederer: Plagiarist!
Sigh… poor Florian….
If you follow my substack, you will know that I’ve written 10 articles so far about Florian Ederer, the self-appointed paragon of ethics in the economics profession, — and future felon? Today’s story is the shortest, but also the funniest. It’s too perfect for me to ignore.
It comes courtesy of Stuart Buck, I am basically just reposting his tweet.
My email to Yale IRB, legal counsel, provost, president, and deans
Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users [PART 6]
Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users [PART 2]
Yale University vows to 'geolocate' most EJMR users [PART 1]
The tweets in question, note the time stamps:
The most confusing part is why he didn’t think he would be caught, I mean, he just copy-pasted the other professor’s tweet, did he think the other professor would not notice? Did he think EJMR would not notice?
And Florian got 1million more views than the other professor, too. I guess people only noticed because it was so successful. He is a victim of his own virality.
This just happened 3 hours ago. I was alerted by this EJMR thread:
I am sure the economics profession will be laughing at him for days to come.
Of course Ederer is the second hacker to be caught plagiarizing.
His coauthor, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, was much more serious.
He plagiarized an entire paper:
I don't think it was a copy-paste from one professor to another. They may not even handle their own tweets. But whether or not they do, I think that they are fed PR messaging that they most often just copy-pasted. I've been following cases like this for a while, and I've seen it too much to think anything else is likely.