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Did @ShamikaRavi, former member of PM’s economic advisory council, plagiarize her @IndianExpress opinion piece from Nobel Laureate Paul Romer’s paper, ‘Roadmap to responsibly reopen America’ as noticed first by @richard49step. Fact-check Thread 
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Shocking to find 24% of Shamika Ravi’s text matches Paul Romer’s paper VERBATIM with very basic edits like changing America to India and Americans to Indians. Archive link: https://archive.is/2hQMR ">https://archive.is/2hQMR&quo... 2/n
Here are a few more screenshots to show the extent of plagiarism detected. There are lots more screenshots as the similarity is a whopping 24% of 1043 words! Link to Romer’s paper https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👉" title="Right pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Right pointing backhand index"> https://roadmap.paulromer.net/paulromer-roadmap-report.pdf">https://roadmap.paulromer.net/paulromer... 3/n
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As if this was not enough, @nit_set pointed out that other parts of her article were similar to economist Karthik Muralidharan’s work 4/n https://twitter.com/nit_set/status/1264869631228960773">https://twitter.com/nit_set/s...
So it turned out that another 9% is similar to Karthik Muralidharan’s piece. Basically the numbers and calculations were heavily ‘inspired’ 5/n
This was subsequently credited after being pointed out. Apology to the reader? What’s that? 6/n https://twitter.com/nit_set/status/1265153849016201221">https://twitter.com/nit_set/s...
In any other place such blatant plagiarism and academic dishonesty would have serious consequences but I suppose here ‘sab chalta hai’. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏻♀️" title="Woman shrugging (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman shrugging (light skin tone)"> 7/7
