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Plagiarism
In October 2013, Senator Rand Paul delivered a speech in Virginia, where he described the film Gattaca. Within a day, political commentator Rachel Maddow noticed striking and suspicious similarities between Paul’s speech and the Wikipedia article for Gattaca.
The text of the Wikipedia article at the time of the speech is on the left, and a video of the speech is on the right. How similar do you find the two?
After news of the Wikipedia plagiarism surfaced, Paul responded by calling his critics “footnote police” and “hacks and haters,” and by threatening to retire from politics and return to his medical practice. Paul has also been accused of plagiarism in other speeches and writing.