Ep. 1823 - Cambridge’s DEI Superstar Was A Serial Liar, Plagiarist & Hate Hoaxer
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The transcript is a commentary that begins with a PureTalk advertisement, then pivots to a detailed critique of Jason Arday, a former Cambridge sociology professor. Arday, celebrated as the youngest Black professor, was exposed for extensive plagiarism, fabricated life stories (e.g., illiteracy until 18, marathon feats, and false hate crime claims), and unqualified hiring. The speaker argues Arday’s rise was a product of DEI policies, not merit, and that Cambridge, media outlets, and activists defended him despite clear evidence of fraud. After resigning and facing scrutiny, Arday died by suicide, prompting backlash from black activists who blamed critics and media, framing the coverage as a "lynching." The speaker condemns this narrative, highlighting Nathan Kofnes, who exposed Arday and received death threats, and criticizes figures like Ibram X. Kendi for defending fraud. The commentary extends to a broader indictment of DEI in academia, citing examples like Harvard’s affirmative action and declining math readiness at Berkeley, arguing such policies select unqualified candidates. It also notes a double standard, referencing a white principal who died by suicide after DEI criticism without similar defense. The transcript concludes with promotions for Hillsdale College, Preborn, and a Daily Wire documentary, reinforcing a conservative critique of institutional corruption and free speech suppression.
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Jason Arday was a serial liar, thug, narcissist, criminal, and plagiarist who quickly rose to the
ranks of full professor at Cambridge, one of the most prestigious and sought-after jobs in all of
academia. Arday was awarded his job as a professor of sociology of education, not because of his
talent or scholarship, but because he was a Black activist.
He told liberal white women what they wanted to hear. Arday fabricated elaborate, obviously
fraudulent narratives about how racists had oppressed him throughout his life. He also
concocted bizarre stories about how masked men with knives were chasing him around campus,
how he supposedly discovered a pig's head on the porch of his family home.
Despite clear evidence that Arday was delusional, the leaders of Cambridge,
mostly white liberal women, of course, fell in love with him on the spot.
They passed over thousands of
other qualified, much more qualified applicants, many of them white, in order to sell a story to
the public about the virtues of DEI. Cambridge promoted Arday as a shiny example of a strong
Black man who had overcome tremendous adversity, claimed he couldn't even read or write until he
was 18 years old, and became the youngest Black professor in the university's history.
And then, when it all came crashing down, when Arday was exposed as the complete fraud he was,
he apparently took his own life.
Faced with some actual adversity for once in his life, Arday immediately opted for the coward's way
out. He left his two children behind rather than face the consequences of his own lifelong
deception. And through it all, Cambridge and many other race hustlers, including the UK's
new prime minister, have stood by Arday. Many mainstream media outlets in this country have
run sympathetic stories on him as well, where they suggest that his critics are responsible
for his death. Jason Arday chose to lie and plagiarize. He was a man of his word. He was a
man of his words. And then chose to end his life, apparently. And the only person not responsible
for any of Jason Arday's disastrous decisions, we are told, is Jason Arday himself. Watch.
The death of high-profile academic Jason Arday has intensified scrutiny of the media coverage
of him beforehand. Jason Arday, a sociologist who was once celebrated as the youngest ever
Black professor at Cambridge University, was found dead on Friday.
That's just nine days after he resigned over allegations of plagiarism in his academic work.
His family said in a statement released by his publisher,
the campaign of misinformation was too much for Jason as he had been subjected to a campaign of
sustained abuse since taking the job. The British prime minister called his death a tragedy on so
many levels. A really sad, sad and sorry state of affairs. And I think we just all today think
of Jason, his contribution and his family and friends. Some British media stories call the 41
year old professor plagiarism and a poster boy for diversity. He acknowledged some mistakes in his
work, he said, were partly due to a lack of supervision, but denied plagiarism. Questions
surrounding his athletic and fundraising achievements also dominated media coverage.
As the story about him continued to gain traction, Arday said in a letter posted online that he
resigned because he, quote, reached the limits of what any person should reasonably be expected to
endure. Arday was found unresponsive in South London on Friday and was later pronounced dead
at the scene.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police told CNN following his death,
Cambridge University said in a statement, we are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news.
Our heartfelt sympathies go to Jason, Arday's family and friends at this incredibly difficult
time. So he didn't plagiarize. They were just mistakes in his work that were due to lack of
supervision. He didn't lift whole passages from other authors on purpose. It was an accident. He
tripped, fell and, you know, copy and pasted other people's work.
That attribution. It happens. It happens to the best of us.
CNN also told us that questions were raised about Arday's other alleged achievements, but
they didn't go any further into that. This is drive-by news coverage that's designed to convince
people that Arday was smeared by white supremacists, when in reality, he deserved
everything that happened to him. But the true story of Arday's fall is much bigger than the
sordid collapse of one phony academic at a failing school in the UK.
It's also a story about why, whenever they seek to find the most qualified black candidates for
high-level jobs, whether they're looking for a justice on the Supreme Court or a president of
Harvard University or a White House press secretary or a vice president of the United States or a full
professor at Cambridge, white liberals inevitably select imbeciles who are as morally stunted as
they are intellectually stunted and obviously unqualified for the job. Now, you would think
with unlimited resources to find the most qualified black candidates available, you'd have to find a
lot of them. They'd come up with someone worthwhile. You'd think that, you know, might happen at least
occasionally, but it's not happening. And we need to talk about why. We also need to discuss the
backlash against Nathan Kofnes, a former fellow at Cambridge who lost his job because he told the
truth about anti-white discrimination in universities all over the world. Kofnes,
with the help of other academics and outlets, most notably Retraction Watch,
closed Arday's fraud over the summer. And for that, he has been subjected to a smear campaign
by Cambridge University, as well as various left-wing academics and activists. So the very
thing they accused Kofnes of provoking against Arday, an unfair, vengeful, politically motivated
smear campaign, is precisely, of course, what they're doing to him. In fact, it's not just
Kofnes that they're going after. The left is demonizing anyone who reports the truth about
Kofnes. The reaction has been nothing short of psychotic. There is an all-out effort to
intimidate and harass critics of the serial fabulist, in part because they realize that
if people keep digging, they're going to find out that he was not an aberration. The vast majority
of liberal arts scholarships at every university, including Cambridge, as well as the entire DEI
industry, are all just as fraudulent as Arday himself was. And right now, all of these scammers
are terrified that they're going to be able to get away with it. So they're going to have to
be exposed as well. That would include a woman named Hilary Kremen, who serves as the head of
faculty and professor of education at Cambridge. She's one of the faculty members who hired Arday
in 2023. The BBC was on the scene to cover this momentous development in a puff piece that
has not aged especially well. And Kremen is the white woman at the end of the segment,
just to be clear. Watch. I always felt it was a privilege to have a period of 11 years
where maybe I couldn't speak and I couldn't converse in a way that everyone else could, because it
allowed me to see things in a different way. Professor Jason Arday was diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder at the age of three. He couldn't speak until he was 11 and read or write until he
was 18. Throughout his early years, his parents continued to believe in him. At 18, my mum had got
to a point where there was only so much she could do and she was brilliant, even though she had this
belief that, you know, he'll do something. And she was brilliant. And she
something okay but she's just decided I need someone else to believe in him as
much as I believe in him therapists predicted he would need full-time
assistance throughout his life how wrong they were and now Jason is days away
from achieving another ambition here's his new boss at Cambridge we do have a
lot of work to do but I feel really optimistic part of his research will
look at new ways to make higher education more accessible for everyone
what can we do to ensure that this isn't a market appointment in five years time
how can this become the norm we've listened to the voices of our black
scholars and our black students and some of it has not been easy to hear to be
honest but we're able to face up to some of the structural issues that people
that people face there will be those I think
you need to look at new ways to make higher education more accessible for everyone what can we do to ensure that this isn't a market appointment in five years time how can this become the norm we've listened to the voices of our black scholars and our black students and some of it has not been easy to hear to be honest but we're able to face up to some of the structural issues that people that people face there will be those I think
this is a tokenistic appointment what are your thoughts on this the Board of
Electors on your interview day were absolutely unanimous we are so lucky to
have you you are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do well
there's nothing quite like being forced to watch the sexual tension in the
Cambridge sociology department between a man who looks like a long-lost member of
Milli Vanilli and a woman who looks and acts like she should be starring in a PSA about the
dangers of brain parasites from cats Hilary Kremen is living the fantasy of every white liberal female on the planet right now this is the the equivalent of like a BTS concert for millions of adult women she gets the opportunity to fawn over a black guy to apologize to him on behalf of white people they love nothing more than that they love to do that and to present herself as this exceedingly wise introspective academic who's willing to do the work and to really sell the message there's even the dramatic close-up of the interracial handshake like it's
a modern-day renaissance painting so who is this person who is Hilary Kremen exactly
well I looked up her CV and as you expect she hasn't
done anything worthwhile in her entire career. Her publications have titles like Violence and
Institutional Racism in Schools, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Restorative Justice, and Is It
Possible to Access the Voice of Preschool Children? Now, she throws in every woke buzzword you'd
expect. Admittedly, I didn't read any of it, of course. But from what I can tell, no one else is
reading this stuff either. A professor named Alex Edmonds took a look at Kremen's work on Google
Scholar and found that she's been cited only about 2,000 times in her entire career, which has
lasted for more than 26 years. And for comparison, he says that a senior professor in finance might
have 2,000 citations in a single year. In other words, Hillary Kremen, like virtually every other
academic in the liberal arts, is a net negative on society. She consumes a significant amount of
taxpayer funding. She hires faculty members on the basis of their skin color. And her research, if we
think about it in the first place, and does not contribute to the reserves of human knowledge in
any way, is all about finding new methods to discriminate against white people. The world
would be a better place if professors like Hillary Kremen were purged from society. It's as simple as
that. This helps explain why Kremen might say that Jason Arday is the best in the world. It also
explains why she refused to fire Arday or even criticize him when evidence of his plagiarism
surfaced.
Frauds tend to look out for one another. They understand that when one of them falls,
the others are also in jeopardy. Arday himself understood that concept very well. In April,
he spoke at the British Sociological Association's 75th anniversary conference,
where he lamented the fact that right-wing activists were exposing black frauds in
academia, including Claudine Gay, who was the former president of Harvard. Arday stated that,
the instruments that are designed to protect academic integrity, designed to protect our
well-being,
and our intellectual property, are weaponized. There isn't any room to sit there and watch your
fellows suffer for no reason. It's abhorrent. It's a disgrace and, quite frankly, evil. That's
the cancer that we need to eradicate from academia. Now, of course, Arday was not worried
about eradicating a cancer from academia. He knew that he was the cancer, along with every other
unqualified activist who's elevated solely on the basis of skin color. So let's get specific about
what exactly Arday was guilty of. He was guilty of, in fact, the same thing. He was guilty of the
same thing that Arday was guilty of, and how obvious it was. On July 21st, Nathan Kofnes published
an article on his substat called, DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge. And in the article,
he describes running Arday's 2015 PhD dissertation through plagiarism detection software. And he
found that, on several occasions, Arday stole the wording, with minimal changes,
from a 2009 dissertation written by a student in London. And we'll put some of this side-by-side,
up on the screen right now. You can see that the yellow highlights indicate verbatim copying,
green indicates a paraphrase. So there's a lot of verbatim copying, as you can see.
The plagiarism is obvious. It's extensive. There are many more examples as well,
including plagiarism from other sources. But it's important to understand that Arday's plagiarism
extended well beyond his dissertation. I mean, that's bad enough on its own.
Several of his published papers were plagiarized as well. Unfortunately for Arday, a
retired professor named Dave Harris came across one of these published papers entitled,
Attempting to Break the Chain, Reimagining Inclusive Pedagogy and Decolonizing the Curriculum
Within the Academy. And Harris noticed some apparent plagiarism. Now, why you would even
need to plagiarize nonsense about decolonizing the curriculum when it's all made-up drivel anyway
is beyond me. I mean, you could just make up whatever you want. It doesn't mean anything.
I could write a paper on that subject in 45 minutes. You're just making it up.
I mean, that's the fun of it, isn't it? Isn't that the one thing that should make this fun?
Being in this totally nonsensical academic field, you can just make up whatever you want. Be
creative. Have fun with it. That's maybe the worst thing about the Arday scandal. Not only
was he a plagiarist, but he was plagiarizing gibberish. I mean, that's like copying a preschooler's
drawing of a tree and trying to pass it off as your own. You couldn't have just made your own
tree? Really? You had to copy that one? Anyway, Harris wrote an email to Arday seeking an
explanation. It was a polite email that simply asked Arday to explain the, quote, puzzling
similarities between his work and previously published materials. In response, a week later,
Arday wrote that it was, quote, disappointing that you have imposed yourself on me in the manner you have, i.e. without any reflexivity
or humility whatsoever. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black there. Arday added, quote,
you'll likely know from your literature reviews, not from experience, that the academy is a hostile
place for black scholars. There are very few of us that become professors, but even fewer in the
fortunate or precarious position I am in, which is having the platform to represent and uplift other
people of color, even beyond academia. As a black autistic man with global developmental delay and
disability, the odds are even less likely. My hope has always been that people like me feel inspired
to pursue academia and that people like you can make space for this. Instead of spending your time
trying to dismantle racism and ableism, you've spent what I assume is hours coming through my
work looking for mistakes. Arday concluded, quote, please do not email me again. Should you have the
time to spare, I invite you to direct your resources elsewhere. Anything further from you
will be considered bullying and harassment.
I mean, all of that reads like a parody of what a black academic activist would write in response
to being accused rightly of plagiarism. Why are you imposing yourself on me? You're imposing
yourself. I've stolen from you, but by you pointing that out, you are imposing yourself on me. Why
would you impose yourself? Don't you know I have dyslexia? Don't you know I'm autistic? And if
that, if the self-parody wasn't enough, Arday then contacted the police who referred the matter to
the Devon and Cornwell police for investigation. So to be clear, Arday reported a professor to the
police and claimed that he was a victim of a hate, a fake crime, a hate crime, presumably,
also harassment, in order to shut down a legitimate inquiry into his fraudulent work.
Rather than denying the accusation and providing context to clear his name, he started
rambling about how he's black and autistic, which is about as close to an admission of guilt as you'll
get. The police declined to pursue the case after investigating it, but they should have just put
Arday in handcuffs at that point, and he should have been fired immediately. There's no place in
a university for a professor who tries to have his critics arrested, obviously, and filing a
phony complaint with the police is a crime. Arday should have gone to jail for it.
He is a criminal in addition to everything else. Arday resorted to intimidation because
it usually worked for him. Most notably, in September of 25, Arday received an email from
the Times Higher Education, which was about to report on his extensive plagiarism. Arday responded
by bringing in the top defamation law firm in the UK, Carter Ruck, to send a cease and desist to the
newspaper. It's unclear if Arday was paying the firm's bills or Cambridge was, but somebody was.
In a cease and desist, the law firm said that the paper was relying on a source
who did not understand the academic process. The law firm also accused the newspaper of harassment
and mocked the idea that there was actually a story here. In the end, it worked. The Times
Higher Education shamefully caved. They never ran the story. But confidence didn't give up. He went
through all of Arday's prominent published papers, including the one flagged by Harris,
and found even more plagiarism.
A lot more. Again, we'll throw some of the examples up on screen. These are all flagrant
examples of plagiarism. It didn't require any kind of careful line-by-line comparison.
Plagiarism detection software picked up on all of these problems immediately.
You know, there may be cases of plagiarists who are clever enough to cover up their theft
or obscure it to a large degree. Jason Arday was not clever. And we can assume that there are even
more examples that the program hasn't found yet. Again, other than Kofnis and a few professors,
he's been looking into this guy. But when you zoom out, things get even worse for Arday.
Here's the most important image from Kofnis' Substack article. It's a summary of his findings
after looking through all 10 of Arday's most prominent publications. And as you can see,
at least four of the 10 articles involve some amount of plagiarism, with extensive plagiarism
in at least two of the articles. But that's not even the most important takeaway here.
The really important takeaway is that if you eliminate the plagiarized papers,
then Arday has not produced any actual scholarship. You're left only with interviews
he supposedly conducted about racist white people. So there's nothing to indicate that Arday
has any academic qualifications whatsoever. Now, when these concerns were raised with Cambridge,
the university, of course, said it didn't care because the plagiarism took place before he was
hired at Cambridge. They said that, quote, in this instance, the research that your concerns
relate to was carried out before Professor Arday joined the university. It would normally be for
the institution at which the work was done to consider any research integrity concerns
with a particular paper published in the paper.
our name. As such, we do not consider it within our remit to investigate the paper to which you
refer. In other words, they hired him because of his research, but they don't care if the research
is fake. I mean, it's like if a hospital hired a doctor and then you pointed out to the hospital
that, oh, that doctor's whole resume is fake. He doesn't even have a real medical degree.
And then the hospital said, yeah, but that happened before. That was then, this is now.
I mean, yeah, the guy's currently operating on your heart, but that happened way in the past.
That's not up to us to look into. Meanwhile, the journals that published Arday's articles
took them offline and allowed him to make edits before they went back online. The journals all
stated that the edits were relatively minor and merely involved, quote, making it clear where
ideas were adapted from past research. But in truth, as Retraction Watch found, the edits were
actually extensive. So to give just one example, Arday's articles in the
article in the journal Social Sciences originally stated that he had analyzed interview transcripts
with, quote, an iterative coding scheme using in vivo qualitative data analysis software
before having a researcher code data to enhance the validity of emerging themes and claims.
So that sounds all very technical. Sounds like he did some actual work in the original version.
But in the revised version of the article, Arday merely says that he recorded the interviews,
transcribed them, and analyzed them by using, quote,
review and reflection.
Initially, Retraction Watch also found that Arday had plagiarized some of these interviews
from other sources, so he wasn't even conducting them himself.
This guy was not simply a plagiarist. In other words, he was actively fabricating data
in order to push a certain narrative. He was engaging in deliberate deception
in multiple different ways. So this is institutional corruption at every level.
Cambridge refused to punish the black guy they hired as a token, and the peer-reviewed,
scientific journals allowed Arday to cover his tracks with stealth edits even after his plagiarism
was brought to their attention. And on top of that, even before all the plagiarism was uncovered,
Arday was lying about every aspect of his life in a very pathological and blatant fashion.
First of all, he claimed that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, even after suffering a leg fracture
around the 21st marathon. Nobody who's looked into this rather extraordinary claim has been
able to verify it. There's news.
This article where he tells a reporter that he ran 30 marathons, but it's based solely on his own
claims, and there's nothing in the article about a leg fracture. Arday also claimed at various points
that he ran 300 miles in three days, or 600 miles in six days, depending on where you look.
If true, that would mean that Jason Arday is nearly on par with the greatest runners who
have ever lived. As Coughness writes, for comparison, Giannis Kouros,
who has been described as the greatest ultra runner of all time, set a world record in 1984,
when he ran 359 miles in three days. As a side note, I have to say, it's very funny that a
grown man was making this kind of thing up. It sounds like a lie a third grader might tell his
friends when he gets back to school after summer vacation. You know what I did? You know what I
did? I ran so far, like 300 miles, and then I got attacked by a bear. That's my Jason Arday
impression. Then there's the claim that Arday couldn't read or write until he was
18, even though on its face, it's absurd to think that somebody who's illiterate at 18 could start
publishing academic papers so quickly. But then again, since he copied all the papers,
and his whole field of study is made up gibberish anyway, maybe that claim isn't actually so
implausible. I mean, there was a lot of people saying, oh, he clearly was not illiterate. He
made that up. That's like the one thing he claimed that I'm willing to believe.
He might still be illiterate. He might have still been illiterate before. And yet Arday graduated high
school with a certificate that requires literacy, which seems incompatible with the idea that he
couldn't read. And additionally, the New York Times just spoke to several of Arday's classmates,
as well as a speech professional who worked with him when he was a child. They all said he could
speak English and did so often. So the idea that he couldn't speak at all until age 11,
as he claimed, is absurd. There's no way that a child goes from being unable to speak English to
being fluent overnight. But he kept making that claim again and again. Cambridge sent Arday out
on a press release. He said, I'm not going to be able to speak English. I'm going to be able to
to illustrate how inclusive they are. Watch. I was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
when I was three. So a hybrid of autism, Asperger's syndrome and global development delay. And I guess
it's been well kind of publicized now, but I didn't learn to speak until I was 11. And I didn't learn
to read and write until I was 18. So tell me about you being a little boy, though, and what was going
on in your mind at that time? Well, I mean, one of the things that I think people tend to think with
children is that it's a disadvantage. And while I wouldn't want to trivialize the difficulties that
come with that, for me, it was there was a beauty in the paralysis of speech, you know, not being
able to be vocal and, I guess, converse with people in what is seen in a more conventional
way. I was able to absorb the world and construct my reality in a different way, really through the
efforts of my mother and my friends and family around me. Now, as a few people have pointed out,
when Arday was three years old, he was a little boy. He was a little boy. He was a little boy.
Neither Asperger's nor global development delay were formally diagnosed by the UK's National
Health Service. A global development delay was first used around 2003, while Asperger's became
a diagnosis in 1992, four years after Arday was that age. So there's a lot of reasons to doubt
what he's saying, and none of it received any mainstream pushback whatsoever. There are also
some more questionable claims in Arday's memoir, as Sarah Didum points out on her sub-stack. Arday
claims that he had several tumors. Arday claims that he
including one in his brain and one in his testicle. He claimed he developed epilepsy after
being beaten by four people. He says he was comatose after being hit by a car. Some of these claims are
from his memoir itself. Others are from the book proposal. They're all risable and absurd to the
point of being laughably implausible taken together. And by the way, while we're at it, Simon and Schuster
published Arday's memoir, which they clearly did not fact check in any way. That's yet another institution that
folded in the name of DEI and racial equity. You know, it used to be that when you bought a
nonfiction book, an editor and fact checker had looked at it. But that wasn't the case here. He
lied about everything from his autism to his athletic accomplishments. And nobody at any point
in the editing process flagged any of it. Apparently because there was no editing process.
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from our day are the ones exposed by the guardian of all places.
This is where it becomes evident that this guy is a fabricator on the level of Jussie Smollett.
This is where he throws away all of his credibility, what infinitesimal amount of it he had,
without even realizing it, though. It's from an open letter that R. Day wrote last summer to a
minister in the government outlining the alleged racism he experienced. So listen to this.
Quote, R. Day claimed to have been confronted at his faculty building on two separate occasions by
a masked man threatening to harm him if he did not resign and evading detection by
both times. On the second occasion, R. Day said the intruder produced a knife and threatened him
with it. The intruder was not picked up by CCTV on either occasion and no one in the faculty reported
seeing anything suspicious. R. Day did not report either intrusion at the time, telling the guardian
that after the second incident, he continued his working day and even conducted a PhD oral exam
for a student less than two hours later. Did not inform colleagues that a masked man with a knife
was in the faculty building. This is one of those lies that's so bad and so poorly thought out that
it actually seems to be true. R. It's a fake story that if it were true, would make you worse, makes you look worse, not better.
Because if it's true, that means that your colleagues and the PhD students are going to
wonder why you didn't find the time to mention the masked homicidal maniac with a knife who's
roaming around campus and making threats to murder people. It's one of those things that in most
Well, like I said,
certain amount of urgency. But according to Arday's own version of events, he kept the
information to himself. He was confronted by the masked man with a knife. He managed to escape
somehow. Maybe he rappelled down a wall or did ninja karate moves or something. We don't know,
but he managed to escape. And then he thought, well, I'm not worried about anybody else. That's
their problem. I got away from that guy. That's everyone else's problem. I'm not even going to
tell anybody. And he just went about his day as if nothing happened. Now, of course, the story is
not remotely true. I mean, it's a variation of what Jussie Smollett was doing at Fox when he
wrote those letters to himself, pretending to be a white supremacist who wanted Fox to fire him.
But Cambridge pretended to take the lie seriously, and so the lies kept coming.
And in his open letter, Arday also claimed that mutilated animals had been sent to his parents'
home and that bananas and bullets had been mailed to him.
Arday confirmed in an interview with The Guardian that the mutilated animal sent to
his family home, mentioned in the open letter, was a severed pig's head delivered in a large
cardboard box to his parents' home address in South London. He claimed to have intercepted
the package and immediately thrown it away, only telling the police several months later.
In a subsequent interview, he claimed the police investigated, checking with butchers in South
London if they had sold a pig, eventually finding one that had sold a whole hog on the morning the
head was left outside the family home. When The Guardian checked those details with the local
butchers Arday named, they said no police officer had come in to ask them about a pig.
When asked if they were sure, the butcher said, that's the kind of thing we'd remember.
When the details Arday gave about the pig's head investigation were checked by London's
Metropolitan Police, The Guardian was told they were categorically incorrect
and no investigation had taken place. So Arday had fantasized a scenario where he was being
tormented like, you know, someone who had gotten on the wrong side of Don Corleone.
Of course, I will say some of the most tender and flavorful cuts of pork are the cheeks and jowls,
so it seems possible that this white supremacist was just trying to send him a delicious meal.
That could have been it. Wait, maybe it wasn't a white supremacist. Maybe it was just someone
trying to do him a favor. At least that would be a plausible theory if the white supremacist
existed, which he doesn't. As you'd expect, there's also no evidence of the bananas or
bullets that were supposedly sent to him. Arday never took any photographs of these
items when they were mailed to his house, nor did he mention them to anyone at the time.
Like, that's the strange thing about these race hustlers, you'll notice.
You know, they're desperate to claim racism wherever they can find it. And then one day,
a white supremacist sends them a box full of bananas and bullets,
and they don't even think to snap a picture of it. Strange. When The Guardian asked him about
all these issues, he replied in quote, and said, I quote, to be honest with you,
I thought you'd just believe me. Why would I lie? That's an extraordinary reply. That's really what
he said. You know, what he's confessing here is that he never even developed a plan for defending
his lies. Like, typically, a liar, you know, if he's vaguely intelligent, will be aware that his
lie might be exposed. And so he'll come up with some kind of plan B, some sort of defense, some
secretary hopes that, you know, his wife won't notice the motel room charge on the credit card.
But if she does, well, he's ready to claim that he generously rented a room for a hypothermic
homeless man that he found huddled on the sidewalk or something. What he won't say if
the room charge is raised is, oh, I didn't think you'd ask me about that. Oh, you want to know what
I was doing in the motel? I didn't, honestly, I didn't think you'd ask me. That's it. Anyway,
what do you want for dinner?
So in this case, we're dealing with someone so narcissistic and so profoundly stupid that he
simply thought he could make up whatever he wanted and nobody would question him or his
motivations. And the really shameful and pathetic thing is that actually he was right, at least for
a while. But here's the amazing thing. I mean, even if Artie hadn't plagiarized anything, and
even if he'd never lied about his life story, there would still be no reason to hire him at
Cambridge or anywhere else. It would still be a scandal that he got hired in the first place.
I'm not going to lie to you. I should have disqualified him from employment at any university, regardless of how talented he was
and regardless of how much research he was doing. But even if you forget about everything I've said,
his credentials are still non-existent. So this is from the New York Times.
When Cambridge University interviewed Jason Arday for one of the most prestigious sociology
positions in the world, he was an early career scholar and underqualified by the school's own
standards. Cambridge's requirements, reviewed by the New York Times, called for an outstanding
research record of international stature and a proven successful track record supervising
PhD students. Dr. Arday had a modest publication record and had bounced from one university to the
next, not staying long enough to oversee a full three-year or more doctorate. Cambridge
hired him anyway in 2023. So this is one of the key points that needs to be made here.
The plagiarism is not the biggest issue. It's extremely unethical and everybody involved
should be terminated, sure. But the bigger problem is that all of academia is fraudulent.
They have no standards for anything. It's all a ruse. The average Cambridge faculty member is
no more worthwhile than Jason Arday. They give themselves awards and titles, but there are no
standards, particularly when it comes to non-white candidates. As the evidence of Arday's plagiarism
and fabricated stories began to circulate, his former students came forward to describe him as
a terrible teacher on top of everything else. So this is from one of Arday's former students at
another school, the University of Roehampton. Quote, in the end, Arday gave me 70% for my essay,
particularly as Arday had given my work no feedback. I asked for a meeting at Roehampton marking his
blind, so he wouldn't have known who'd written which essay. In our meeting, I explained that 70%
was a low mark for me and asked him to provide feedback. Suddenly, his friendly, confident
demeanor changed. I now saw a side of him I'd never seen before, angry, but also scared. Arday
implied that I was racist and said that the only reason I wasn't happy with 70% was due to my white
privilege. He was clearly upset at being questioned, and I ended the meeting as quickly as
possible. Now, we should say this student who's making these claims is
anonymous. The Times in London said they verified the student's identity, but it's pretty remarkable
that he can't simply come out in public with his own name on the op-ed. Even now, after Arday has
been clearly exposed as a fraud, it's still a career suicide to speak out against him.
Cambridge has put out multiple statements denouncing the vile campaign against Arday.
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claiming that white racists are responsible. So here's one such analysis from somebody calling
herself Dr. Shola Moss Shagbamimu. Shagbamimu. That's her name. Beautiful name. Watch.
This is exactly what you wanted to achieve. I told you. I knew you wanted to kill him
or get him killed. I hope you are all satisfied now. Every single one of you bloody evil racists
you white supremacist waste of freaking human space. Those of you who jumped on this bandwagon
to publicly execute him for what? Who held him to a different standard that you hold
white people? And may you all get exactly what you deserve. Every single thing you did
in this last two weeks. Every single one of you that took pleasure and glee. This is exactly
what you wanted. You wanted to kill him and get him killed. I hope to God that you are
satisfied. You get everything that you have coming to you. Are you happy now? Are you happy
now? Are you satisfied? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. Every single one of you. You are
murderers. You are killers. Are you happy now? Shagbamimu asks. Are you happy? Well, I can't
speak for anyone else, but I'll say that I'm
no, I'm not happy. No part of this story makes me happy, but I also feel no pity for this guy
at all. At all, especially now that he's dead. Because of all the selfish, evil, pathetic things
this man did, and his was a life filled with selfish, evil, pathetic things, the manner of
his death surpasses all of it. Now, if you're looking for an explanation as to the psychology
behind why Jason Arday took the coward's way out,
here's your answer. He was a committed pathological narcissist to the very end.
And he decided that rather than live with the consequences of his actions,
he wanted to go out as a victim, as a kind of perverse hero for the swarms of black activists
who are always looking for a reason to attack whites. And that's exactly what
he's become, predictably. There's even going to be a march today in Trafalgar Square entitled
Vigil for Jason Arday, Stand Against Racist Witch Hunts. Because of course, you know, you see when
you report on black fraudsters, the only conceivable reason for doing so is that you hate black people.
The implication is that this would never happen to a white guy in academia. But actually,
white men in academia have had their lives destroyed for far less. Strangely enough,
to give just one example, there were no marches against racist witch hunts for a white school
principal in Toronto named Richard Bilksoe, who killed himself in 2023. And what was his crime?
Well, he dared to suggest during a DEI struggle session that Canada is not a racist country.
And for that crime, he was publicly reprimanded by the superintendent and relentlessly accused
of white supremacy by his colleagues. He was branded a racist all over social media,
and eventually he killed himself.
Now, Richard Bilksoe was not a career fraudster or a criminal or a plagiarist. He was a white
principal who dared to question the wisdom of anti-white propaganda, which he questioned very
mildly, by the way. So they destroyed his reputation and his career. But he doesn't
get any marches or any remembrance. The communists are glad he's dead. They celebrated his suicide on
social media. The reason Jason Arday is different is that he's black, and if people dwell on his
fraud too much, they're going to kill him. So he's not a racist. He's not a racist. He's not a
racist. He's not a racist. He's not a racist. He's not a racist. He's not a racist. He's not a racist.
They might realize that the underlying rationale of DEI is a complete lie.
Not to be outdone, the grandmaster of racial grifting himself, Ibram X. Kendi,
whose real name is Henry Rogers, has decided to weigh in. And that's not surprising,
because as you can see here, Arday and Henry Rogers went to the same DEI stylist to really
nail the whole, like, serious but exotic vibe that drives white women crazy. And they have
something else to say about that. They're going to go to the same DEI stylist to really nail the whole,
They're both fraudsters. Henry Rogers' anti-racism center at Boston University was shut down after
burning through tens of millions of dollars, which no one can trace. And beyond telling black people
that they should be racist against whites, Rogers struggled to articulate any coherent thoughts
whatsoever. And now this same Henry Rogers, aka Ibram X. Kendi, is declaring that, despite what it
looks like, Jason Arday was in fact murdered. Henry just wrote a piece entitled, The Media
Lynched Jason Arday. And here's what he wrote.
Here's how he introduced it. Quote,
The death of Jason Arday hit so close to home that I had no words yesterday, but I woke up with words.
To be a prominent anti-racist black scholar is to know you are a target, almost totally surrounded
by resentments. You know that at any point, the attacks can come like a lynch mob. And if you die
from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you accusations to wash their hands
of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching.
Well, Henry, the reason this hits so close to home is that you are a despicable fraud also.
You have every incentive to accuse Arday's critics of murder right now because you're desperate to
avoid scrutiny yourself. You are an anti-racist expert who can't even define the word racism.
It's like a veterinarian who doesn't know what an animal is. If you never saw this, it's from the
so-called Aspen Ideas Festival a few years ago. And other than watching Am I Racist, it's the best
possible way to see what's going on in the world. And it's a great way to see what's going on in the
world. And I think it's a great way to sum up the fraud that is Henry Rogers as well as the entire DEI grift in general. Watch.
You talked about the importance of defining racism. How do you define racism?
Sure. So racism, I would define it as a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas.
Sure. A collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated
by racist ideas. And anti-racism is pretty simple using the same terms. Anti-racism is a collection
of anti-racist policies leading to racial, anybody want to take a guess? Equity that are
substantiated by anti-racist ideas. So, you know, racism is when you're racist.
Anti-racism is when you're not racist.
Racist policies are, what is a racist policy? Well, you know, racist policy is, it's a racist policy.
Any questions? I guess the one thing you can say in defense of Henry Rogers, at least, is that he
probably didn't plagiarize any of that. If he was going to copy somebody else's work, it would have
probably made sense. Or maybe not, as we saw with Art Egg. Maybe even that was plagiarized. We should look into that.
Henry Rogers' alleged scholarship is so idiotic that it could only come from the mind of the single
dumbest person in the DEI industry, which is Henry Rogers himself. In the article defending Art Egg,
Rogers states that, quote,
The attacks are wielded by racist propagandists resenting you for shining a light on anti-Black
racism. They hope everyone finally picks up their baseless claims. They know that to dim
your light is to dim the light on their anti-Blackness. In 2023, only the Financial Times,
covered extensively, that William O'Reilly, a white Cambridge professor, was found guilty of
plagiarism. All told, a Black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an
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So the scale of plagiarism is nowhere close to Jason Arden. And also, by the way, white people
were not rallied. They were not rallied. around this guy to defend him and to accuse his critics of racism. That happened in this case,
which makes it an even bigger story. And it's a bigger story because it's a controversy.
This is something the left never understands. When somebody is accused of doing something bad
and everyone says, oh yeah, they did that bad thing. Like, yeah, sure, that was bad.
Yeah, he plagiarized. He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't be fired. Okay.
When that happens, there's really no, there's nothing else to say.
say, like the story's over.
But when you have someone who's accused of doing something bad and they did do the bad thing, and you've got mobs of people flanking them, surrounding them to protect them, and claiming that actually this bad thing isn't bad or it's okay in his case or whatever, that makes it a controversy.
And so then the controversy itself turns into the story.
Now, one of the main tactics that Arday's defenders are using is to minimize all these details.
They don't want to talk about what Arday actually did.
Instead, they want to speak in very general terms to convince people that he was lynched somehow.
So here's PBS anchor and NBC contributor Jeff Bennett, for instance, taking an issue with the New York Times reporting on Arday's fraud.
Quote, a man dies at 41 after weeks of relentless public scrutiny.
The New York Times the next day says he was underqualified for his job.
Whatever the merits of the underlying questions, publishing this now is ghoulish.
First of all, spare me the whining about public scrutiny.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I've faced public scrutiny plenty of times.
It comes with the territory in any prominent position these days.
You can't run around doing media interviews, trying to get your face on camera as much as possible, doing and saying things and making claims clearly designed to attract attention, and then cry like a baby when the public scrutiny comes.
You literally asked for it.
Now it's here.
Stand up like a man and take it.
But Jason Arday was no man at all.
And just based on this tweet alone, this Jeff guy should be fired from PBS and whatever other news organization he works for.
You can't have anybody working for a news organization who's willing to misrepresent basic facts like this.
No, the Times did not say he was underqualified.
They also said he was a, they didn't just say that, they also said he was a serial liar and plagiarist.
And no, Arday was not just a random man.
He was a professor at a major university that collects taxpayer money, a university that has an international reputation.
And he was an emblematic of a much larger DEI regime that operates in the vast majority of universities and workplaces all over the world.
So if a journalist is going to ignore all of this, then he should quit and go work in communications for the NAACP or something.
I mean, it's disgraceful.
Here's another take along these lines from the podcast of one Kahinde Andrews.
Watch.
There's a metaphor.
We're cheap and lynching.
So I didn't use it last week.
It's like last week is public storm.
It was a metaphorically a lynching.
Now it's just a lynching.
Man's dead because of the press, because of the media, because of this campaign and because people, including Cambridge, but not just Cambridge, didn't support it.
That's the reality that we have to bear here.
And so I've been getting a lot of phone calls from obviously from press press who's still handling him, by the way, press outside his parents house.
Man's dead outside his parents.
When they're trying to get a picture of like a picture of the mum, like to leave him alone.
Stop.
Enough is enough.
Honestly, they just can't stop.
Right.
Like a feeding frenzy.
You have to talk accountability.
Like this didn't just happen in a vacuum.
This happened for many, many, many reasons.
And there is a whole lot of shame.
Shame pie, if you like, to go around.
This was a mob.
This was a smear.
This was vile tactics.
And instead of seeing that, many of us looked away and said, no, no, I'm not sure.
In fact, instead of seeing that, many of us.
Man's being lynched.
And we're there checking his credentials.
Say, hold on a second.
Should we support him?
It's a bizarre.
What's it?
Respectability politics.
Because you couldn't just see what was happening.
And that case.
And now you've got a lot of people coming out and supporting.
That's enough of that.
I really understand.
The effect of clips like this should be to make you go back and take another look at the reports of lynchings that you learn about in high school.
Now, these black activists are describing legitimate, lawful criticism as a lynching.
They're saying that if you challenge a fraudulent black academic by pointing out that he's a liar and a fraud, which he is, then you are lynching him.
And if that's the case, we should revisit like every single alleged lynching that we're told took place during this country's history.
I mean, how many of those were just light criticisms?
How many of those were justified responses to heinous crimes?
If this is a lynching, then we have no choice.
We have to go back.
We have to go back and look at, okay, if that's what you mean when you say lynching, then what was going on back here?
And you're not crazy for asking that question based on how these people lie to your face all the time, particularly about lynchings.
Every single time they try to claim somebody was lynched, it turns out to be a completely fake story.
So they don't get to talk about lynching anymore.
And if they don't like it, tough.
This is what happens when you devalue the meaning of words, which is what the left does incessantly.
Here's another post with thousands of words.
Here's another post with thousands of likes from somebody using the name Nels Abbey.
Quote, white supremacy killed Jason Arday, murdered him, exposed, criticized, murdered.
What's the difference, right?
There's even a petition with tens of thousands of signatures, including faculty members at Cambridge and members of the British government demanding a government investigation into the media because, quote, self-regulation of the press has comprehensively failed.
So they're begging for media silence.
So they're begging for media censorship because the media reported the truth about a black fraudster.
We respectfully ask you to commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr. Arday's tragic death.
Consider how far the West has fallen in order for tens of thousands of people in a Western country to demand government action to silence people for telling the truth about anything, much less DEI, which is another word for anti-government.
You know, it's easy to criticize the United States, but we're the only Western country that still respects the freedom of speech, by and large.
And it's extraordinary just how far everybody else has fallen.
Now, to be clear, these unhinged tirades are not simply being directed at vague targets like the media or white supremacy.
Some of the most vicious attacks have been leveled personally at Nathan Coffness, the former Cambridge academic who's exposed Arday's fraud.
You can see a few of the threats.
He's received on the screen.
There's been a lot of it.
He's getting hundreds of explicit death threats solely for reporting accurate information that led to the downfall of a scam artist.
So, by the way, there's a great rundown of Nathan Coffness's academic achievements that was published in Quillette the other day.
He was kind of a rock star at Cambridge, and he was on the fast track to much bigger things.
And then he made the argument that, quote,
Now, this is a belief that, according to anonymous surveys, more than 80% of experts in the field agree with.
It's also obviously true.
But even at a university, a place supposedly dedicated to exploring and debating controversial ideas, this was an intolerable thing to say.
So they showed him the door.
And then, as if to prove his point, Cambridge turned around and promoted incompetent, unqualified, unintelligent black fraudsters.
Like Jason Arday.
I need to emphasize that last point because it doesn't get stated nearly enough.
If you were interested in disproving the idea that genetics and race and intelligence could possibly be linked,
then the worst thing you can do is silence any debate on the subject while simultaneously practicing DEI.
I mean, it's as if Cambridge is secretly run by white supremacists.
I mean, on the one hand, you have Nathan Coffness, an early career academic who's making an argument based on decades of
peer-reviewed research.
He's echoing the position of James Watson, who co-discovered the DNA double helix structure.
He's taking an enormous personal risk to say something he believes is true.
On the other side, instead of debating with Nathan Coffness in any way, you have these absolute clowns who silence him while promoting degenerate losers like Jason Arday,
all while claiming he's the single best black scholar you could have possibly found.
That's not how you win the argument.
It's how you win the argument.
It's not how you maintain any kind of legitimacy.
Instead, it's how you concede Nathan Coffness's point.
You're making his argument for him.
And by the way, just since we're on the subject, it is a simple fact that there are average IQ differences between races.
That is a fact.
It doesn't matter how you feel about it.
It's true.
No credible person denies that.
Lots of people who aren't credible do, but no credible person does.
And the idea that genetics have absolutely nothing to do with those differences is just,
absurd on its face.
Of course, there's no reason to deny the genetic component, except if you're worried about the societal implications of that.
But societal implications, whatever they may be or may not be, have nothing to do with the question of whether or not it's factually true.
And it is factually true.
Keep in mind, according to Harvard's own internal 2013 analysis, which was disclosed in litigation,
black enrollment at Harvard would drop to less than 1%.
If the admissions office stopped practicing anti-white discrimination, otherwise known as affirmative action.
And if they judged candidates based on academic merit alone.
With the discrimination, black enrollment was around 14%.
So Kovtis is obviously correct that universities to this day are giving an enormous benefit to black applicants.
Although they can't articulate why exactly they're doing that.
This is very much a live issue.
This kind of discrimination has continued even after the Supreme Court.
Court ruled that Harvard's affirmative action is
unconstitutional. So we should be able to debate issues like this without fear of being silenced
or terminated. Instead, leftist academics are shutting down any kind of dialogue, even as
they're openly selecting students and faculty solely on the basis of race. And in the process,
they're destroying what is left of the education system. This is an extraordinary op-ed that was
just published in the San Francisco Standard. It's written by a calculus teacher at Berkeley,
one of the top universities in the nation, allegedly. Quote, I teach mathematics at UC
Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students.
By the second week of the semester, I already know who's in trouble. Some students are five
to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals
instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in
middle school. Now, the professor notes that from 2018 to 2020,
more than 70% of students at Berkeley tested as ready or nearly ready for calculus
prior to enrolling in calculus class. After Berkeley changed its admissions policies
so that standardized tests were no longer relevant, that number dropped all the way down to 44%.
So in other words, in the quest to achieve equity, major universities, students, and faculty
have become dramatically less capable and intelligent all over the world.
We all knew this was happening, of course, but it's notable that a San Francisco newspaper
and a Berkeley professor, of all people, are coming out and admitting it.
It's a big change from just a few years ago. DEI has become an embarrassment to every institution
that practices it. So despite what Cambridge and Henry Rogers and other Black activists are
trying to say about Jason Arday, the truth is most people are not falling for it. DEI was always bound
to lead to increasingly bizarre and humiliating outcomes because by its very nature, it only
selects for candidates who are both unqualified and shameless. And after all, you have to be
totally shameless to accept accolades that you clearly don't deserve. And as DEI's reputation
circles the drain, an even greater degree of shamelessness is required to participate in the sham.
So we'll continue to get more and more stories like Jason Arday's,
except somehow they'll be even more absurd and unbelievable.
The insanity will have to ratchet up even further.
This is what the death throes of DEI looks like. Just a few years ago when we produced
Am I Racist, this moment seemed many years off, maybe even decades. But with the comically
preposterous rise and fall of Jason Arday and the subsequent freakout by deranged Black activists,
it's fair to say that the fall of DEI is already upon us. Or as Jason Arday might have said,
if he were still with us, observing the public humiliation of a once great university because
of his own rampant dishonesty, now I am become death, the destroyer of DEI.
And people would say, wait, Jason, are you quoting Oppenheimer, Hindu scripture? And he'd
respond that no, he was being totally original. Completely thought of that line himself this
morning when he was brushing his teeth. And somewhere in a faculty lounge deep in the bowels
of Cambridge University, a white liberal woman would break down in tears at the sheer originality
of Jason Arday, the premier Cambridge academic, the exemplar of everything academia stands for.
Taken from us far too soon. Now, before we go, we just finished a real history episode on the
Watergate scandal. There's a lot of information in it. Like when the FBI went into the Watergate
complex to check for bugs after the break-in, they didn't find any. One of the burglars apparently had
access to the DNC office. They didn't find any. Another had a key to the desk inside. All of them were connected to the CIA. All of that and a lot
more is in this episode, which you have to see. It comes out for all Daily Wire subscribers on
Wednesday. Here's the trailer. But in all of my years of public life, I have never profited from
public service. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not
their president's a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. For more than five decades, from Iran-Contra to
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The transcript promotes PureTalk wireless as a cheaper alternative to expensive plans, with a sponsorship call to action.
It details the case of Jason Arday, a Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism, fabrication, and fraud, who died by suicide after resigning.
The speaker argues Arday was hired due to DEI policies, not merit, and criticizes Cambridge, media, and activists for defending him.
It highlights Nathan Kofnes, who exposed Arday and faced backlash, including death threats, for his reporting.
The transcript criticizes broader DEI practices in academia, citing examples like Harvard admissions and Berkeley math readiness.
It condemns black activists like Ibram X. Kendi and others for framing criticism as "lynching" and demanding media censorship.
The speaker compares Arday’s case to a white principal who died by suicide after DEI criticism, arguing unequal treatment.
It ends with promotions for Hillsdale College, Preborn, and a Daily Wire Watergate episode.
Summary:
The transcript is a commentary that begins with a PureTalk advertisement, then pivots to a detailed critique of Jason Arday, a former Cambridge sociology professor. , illiteracy until 18, marathon feats, and false hate crime claims), and unqualified hiring. The speaker argues Arday’s rise was a product of DEI policies, not merit, and that Cambridge, media outlets, and activists defended him despite clear evidence of fraud.
" The speaker condemns this narrative, highlighting Nathan Kofnes, who exposed Arday and received death threats, and criticizes figures like Ibram X. Kendi for defending fraud. The commentary extends to a broader indictment of DEI in academia, citing examples like Harvard’s affirmative action and declining math readiness at Berkeley, arguing such policies select unqualified candidates.
It also notes a double standard, referencing a white principal who died by suicide after DEI criticism without similar defense. The transcript concludes with promotions for Hillsdale College, Preborn, and a Daily Wire documentary, reinforcing a conservative critique of institutional corruption and free speech suppression.
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Jason Arday was a professor at Cambridge University who was accused of plagiarism, fabricating his biography, and lying about his achievements, including claims about his literacy and athletic feats.
Cambridge University refused to investigate the plagiarism because it occurred before Arday was hired, stating it was not within their remit to investigate work done at other institutions.
Arday claimed to have been threatened by a masked man with a knife, received a severed pig's head, and mailed bananas and bullets, but these claims were found to be unverified or false.
Nathan Kofnes, a former fellow at Cambridge, exposed Arday's plagiarism and fabricated stories, leading to Arday's resignation and subsequent death.
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