This presents evidence that the president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, plagiarized her dissertation!
Even more amazingly, her PhD is from Harvard, and she won a “best dissertation” prize there for it! And they hired her on the faculty and even made her president. And since she plagiarized from her advisor, it says there, someone at Harvard knew she did it, and they still graduated her, hired her and promoted her.
Let this lead to the destruction of the whole leftist academic establishment. They’re no more trustworthy than the CDC. They are not safe, but they have been very effective in subverting our society and, to a fair extent, the whole world.
First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.
This is a direct violation of Harvard's policy: "When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas… pic.twitter.com/t6enHp3dN9
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023
Second, Gay appears to lift material from scholar Carol Swain. In one passage, summarizing the distinction between "descriptive representation" and "substantive representation," she copies the phrasing and language nearly verbatim from Swain’s book 'Black Faces, Black Interests,'… pic.twitter.com/68bJy1F9jo
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023
Third, Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King's book, 'A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem.' While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that… pic.twitter.com/WGZAzc6gUn
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023
These are flagrant violations of Harvard's plagiarism policy, which states that students who commit plagiarism will suffer "disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College." The same standard should apply to the university president. pic.twitter.com/Q2UviANylT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 10, 2023
Here is the full story, co-authored with @RealChrisBrunet, about Claudine Gay's plagiarism scandal. More reporting tomorrow morning for City Journal.t.co/lwbSA9DGUL
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 11, 2023
Here's Harvard's guidelines on "what constitutes plagiarism." Our claim is that Gay's dissertation violates Harvard's stated principles on academic integrity. The university set the standard; the university president should be held accountable to it.t.co/sn4UdafAPE
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 11, 2023
Claudine gay the president of Harvard not only plagiarized she also faked her data when she did academic research. t.co/jmXJW2wqVw
— EnlightenedBaka (@EnlightenedBak2) December 11, 2023
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