The Wes Huff plagiarism scandal threatens the scholarly persona that the YouTube apologist has built up over the years. After scrubbing his apology video, Huff has taken to his website, where some of the material that was allegedly plagiarized was published.
Content was removed from the site. Then the website went private.
But WesleyHuff.com was not the only thing scrubbed. Huff scrubbed his YouTube channel, likely privatizing all videos. The channel boasts 1.04 million subs and the only content left is community posts.
Wes Huff is doing everything a guilty person would do, even if the charges are esoteric to most people. Nevertheless, the allegations are a blow to the credibility of the brand he created for his apologetics ministry.
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I appreciated your take on plagiarism in your initial article on Wes Huff. I realized in social media or even Facebook (dating myself as one who still uses the platform to interact with others) I should be careful to use quotation marks when I excerpt an article with a link under it. Though I’ve never intentionally tried to pass off another’s words as my own might as well be clear. But I’m a campus evangelist by calling, not an academic and Facebook is not “print media” much less “The Evangelical Theological Society”. When Mr. Huff displayed his low view of scripture saying portions of the NT were not authentic but added later he also held the tone of personal expertise. He did not use citations of others published in translation work as a non-scholar in the field would. Obviously those opinions exist and reading them is where he got his opinion. He’s at a Canadian seminary of the liberal Anglican Church working on a PhD that, being from Canada, would be looked down on by American academics anyway as less rigorous. Probably akin to getting an advanced degree from a seminary so you can call yourself “Reverend Doctor”. Anyway thanks for bring this to light.