Jonah Lehrer’s explicit plagiarism in The New Yorker is the worst example of authorial misconduct. Because of its vast audience and respected name, Lehrer completely slandered not only his reputation, but the reputation and validity of the magazine as a whole. Taking quotes and excerpts from others is bad in and of itself, but recycling old material of your own, while simultaneously being wrong with your references, is showing how lacking your own ability is in the field in which you’ve been hired. Zakaria at least had the decency to plagiarize correct sources. From the reading of the article, Anderson just seems to be irresponsible, not vindictive or purposely negligant.
