Debacle In Academia
We wrote here about the strange case of Jason Arday, the (allegedly) autistic man who says he couldn’t speak until he was 11, couldn’t read until he was 18, but wound up as a professor of sociology at Cambridge University.
Arday was the ultimate DEI hire, oppressed in pretty much every possible way. But serious allegations of plagiarism were made regarding his PhD dissertation, and it turned out that pretty much all of Arday’s biography was fiction–the visiting professorships, the severed pig’s head, the whole thing. Initially, liberals at Cambridge defended him vociferously and local police investigated a journalist who looked into Arday’s credentials, but the last straw came when it developed that the book Arday claimed to have written was fiction, too:
The Telegraph also revealed that Prof Arday had repeatedly claimed that he was the author of a book called Being Young, Black and Male: Challenging the Dominant Discourse.
The book was listed in his biography description in published essays as well as in promotional material for speaking events, and was attributed to the Palgrave Macmillan publishing house.
There is no evidence that any book was written or published.
