Good afternoon folks, folks. Welcome to the podcast The Lotusitas for Friday the 26th of January 2024.

Yes, you've made it to Friday the last Friday in January.

So that was the first month of 2024.

Wasn't easy, was it?

I'm joined by Travis and Peter and we are sorry

Travis Brown was it? Yes. And Peter Magosian and we are going to be talking about

the plagiarism in academia scandal, uncomfortable truth about gender ideology and

then we're going to touch on gay surrogacy. Nothing controversial on this pod.

Nothing controversial. But before you begin we've got a couple of announcements. The first is we are recruiting. We would like a social media manager. So if you are watching and think you can do a good job running our social media accounts, do get in touch.

Remember, one stipulation of the jobs,

you will have to work from the office.

So don't apply if you're like in Australia or something,

and you can't make it on a daily basis.

The second announcement is that we have the Gold Zoo, the monthly Gold Zoom call for the

gold tier subscribers at 3 o'clock today. So after the podcast, we'll come and hang out and we'll just

talk about whatever it is on your mind really

but that should be quite fun and so we will see you there. In the meantime though

let's begin. So how widespread is plagiarism in academia? Well I have an academic here who's going to explain it to us.

That is it. Thank you. Great to be here. That is the million dollar question. How widespread is it?

Before we get into it, do you want to give us your background?

Just so people can understand how we became friends.

Yeah, sure, yeah, we've known each other a long time, friends for a long time.

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