Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Adam Ellwanger recently announced that he’s giving away $100 for each instance of plagiarism that anyone can find in his work throughout his career, up to $1000. …

”I think when they say everybody does this, it’s it’s common practice, right? It’s a smear of the hard working scholars who, you know, have worked hard to observe what everybody knows are the rules regarding plagiarism and documentation of sources,” Ellwanger said.

”We’ve documented that Claudine Gay’s administration held students accountable for less flagrant violations of the rules, then she herself committed. And I think that the contest is, is a way to prove that No, it’s not common practice,” he added.

[Putting his money where his mouth is! That’s a good way to make his point that plagiarism is uncommon in Academia. Good for him, but that raises a question — why is no one at Harvard making this point to defend its own institution? — Ed]