News outlet killed story on plagiarism after Cambridge prof hired law firm
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A citation to some other famous case [1] would make the sarcasm clearer.
[1]: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188828810/stanford-universit...
we have a professor who stole others work to get promoted (but also donated millions to good causes), a law firm he hired that abuses libel law to scare journalists out of telling the truth, and the people who exposed him are racists who probably only care about this because hes black and they want to imply that all black or left wing academics should be suspected of fraud.
its pretty telling that most of the direct quotes in the article are about Ardays race or political views, and the people who actually did the investigation dont mention race at all.
But it is also hard to take this seriously when many of these "concerned colleagues" openly entertain racist ideologies and oppose black professors on campus.
I would suggest it is a little more than a “mix up”. My alma mater has a responsibility here to act.
[1] The social concepts of race doesn't actually map to meaningful genetically distinct pools - and to believe so, despite the clear scientific evidence to the contrary, shows a questionable attachment to the social concept of race.