“These allegations of plagiarism are demonstrably false.”

Steve McGuire posts a letter from Clare Lock LLP:

Re: Claudine Gay and Harvard University

Dear Laura and Adam,

We are defamation counsel to Harvard University and Claudine Gay, the President of Harvard University.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Isabel Vincent, an investigative reporter for The New York Post, notified Harvard that she is preparing for publication a proposed article that would include highly inflammatory and damaging allegations, derived from “complaints” purportedly “received” by The Post from some unidentified source, that “some” of President Gay’s scholarly work “may have been plagiarized from other academics.”!

Let me be perfectly clear so there is no misunderstanding of my clients’ position in any future legal proceeding made necessary by the publication of these defamatory falsehoods.

These

allegations of plagiarism are demonstrably false. The excerpts that Ms. Vincent provided do not support a finding of plagiarism – and the conclusion she proffers rests on a fatally flawed