Veteran Responds to Senator Walsh's PTSD Claim

Here is a veteran’s response to Senator John Walsh’s claim that PTSD is to blame for him committing plagiarism:

What really upsets me is Walsh’s use of post-traumatic stress disorder to defend academic dishonesty. It has the potential to further distort society’s understanding of mental trauma and create space for veterans to misuse their diagnoses in any number of situations, academic or otherwise. [New York Times]

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