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The Chegg Conspiracy: two preliminary points

Note: this blog post is the sixth in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” I will be posting my Criminal Complaint against Chegg, Inc. and Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig in the next day or two, but … Continue reading

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Monday map: meteor strikes

Check out this report describing every fireball meteor that has hit the Earth’s atmosphere in the last 33 years.

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Joshua Rothman on Bayesian reasoning

My August 23, 2021 issue of The New Yorker (the cover of which is pictured above) arrived in the mail on Friday, and among the essays that caught my attention was this one on mental models and Bayesian reasoning by … Continue reading

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Open Letter to UCF

August 20, 2021 Michael D. Johnson, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Central Florida, Millican Hall, Orlando, FL 32816 Dear Dr. Johnson, To the point, I am absolutely appalled that my colleagues and I in the … Continue reading

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The Chegg Conspiracy

Note: this blog post is the fifth in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” I will be posting my Model Criminal Complaint against Chegg, Inc. and Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig next week (most likely on Tuesday … Continue reading

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PSA: our “leaders” are a disgrace

Originally posted on prior probability:
I am interrupting my moral and legal analysis of Chegg’s evil business model to ask, Where is the accountability? Why has no one in our government or military been fired for our defeat in Afghanistan…

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Throwback Thursday: researchers cheat too

I am still in the process of writing up my Model Criminal Indictment against Chegg; in the meantime, here is a link to my 2015 paper “Legal Liability for Research Fraud.” (Also, check out the myriad instances of research fraud … Continue reading

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PSA: our “leaders” are a disgrace

I am interrupting my moral and legal analysis of Chegg’s evil business model to ask, Where is the accountability? Why has no one in our government or military been fired for our defeat in Afghanistan and the ongoing disaster in … Continue reading

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The case against Chegg in a nutshell

Note: this blog post is the fourth in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” Thus far, we have seen how students use Chegg to cheat (see my 8.16 post “The Napster of cheating“), and we have … Continue reading

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Chegg is evil: change my mind

Note: this blog post is the third in a multi-part series on “the law and ethics of Chegg.” Is Chegg evil? This is the question I posed to my students in the spring of 2021, when I discovered that many … Continue reading

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