Star Academic at Cambridge Can't Back Up His Own Stories
More than 12,000 people signed a petition supporting Arday as Cambridge said plagiarism allegations and related misconduct claims were being investigated.
- Cambridge University has cleared sociology professor Jason Arday of plagiarism allegations, stating that investigations found no wrongdoing and characterizing the claims as part of "a vile campaign to undermine credibility."
- Nathan Cofnas, a researcher sacked from Cambridge in 2024, first voiced plagiarism accusations, claiming his software found "many passages are lifted with minimal editing" in Arday's PhD dissertation.
- Admitting to errors in his work, Arday told the Times on Saturday that he is accountable for mistakes but asserted, "what I am not is a liar," citing inadequate PhD supervision due to his autism.
- A Good Law Project petition supporting Arday has garnered more than 12,000 signatures, while Simon Baron-Cohen, a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, warned on Friday of "relentless bullying."
- Arday argued the accusations are "racially motivated" and that he has become a "lightning rod" for DEI criticism, with Black academics comprising just one percent of UK professors—250 people in 2023–24.
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