Wesley Huff posted an apology video responding to allegations of plagiarism, in which he said that he would cancel his 24-year-old self. He would unlist the video on Wednesday. This raises the question as to how much of Huff’s narrative was bogus.
Huff claimed that Academia.Edu was widely used as a dropbox for PDFs, something I might know nothing about, but others have said is untrue. Huff cannot access his account because of a defunct student email address.
Huff claimed that this was during his Master’s when it appears, based on the timeline it was during his PhD. Additionally, he claimed that none of the plagiarized papers were turned in and were instead drafts. This should raise eyebrows as what is the point of going through all that trouble to reword someone else’s work for a draft that’s not to be turned in. Additionally, some of these papers were published on his website, so clearly they weren’t just drafts.
There were a lot of discrepancies in Wes Huff’s side of the story that require further clarification, and it seems to highlight that he is a better conduit for distributing scholarly material than he is a scholar himself.
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That was no apology.
It was an attempt to blame people who criticize his
academic dishonesty. Shame on him.
Zero humility or repentance. His fame has gone to
his head as often happens among men. He is not
above reproach. Let’s hope he never tries to pastor a
congregation.