Prominent UMN researcher resigns amidst plagiarism allegations

Star academic behind million-dollar antiracism center races for exit as plagiarism allegations pile up AlphaNews.org

Share This Story(Daily Caller News Foundation) — A star academic behind an influential but unsound study arguing that black infants die more often with white doctors has for years been privately beleaguered by plagiarism charges from her own subordinates and will soon depart her university, leaving the multimillion-dollar antiracism center she founded in jeopardy. University of Minnesota Prof. Rachel Hardeman’s rise to academic superstardom in t…

Prominent UMN researcher resigns amidst plagiarism allegations

Renowned researcher from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, Rachel Hardeman, announced her resignation amidst plagiarism allegations earlier this week.  A former colleague of Hardeman’s, Brigette Davis, posted on LinkedIn on Monday, accusing her of plagiarizing her dissertation about birth outcomes in a grant submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Davis said her dissertation was copied word-for-word with a few …

Star Academic Behind Million-Dollar Antiracism Center Races For Exit As Plagiarism Allegations Pile Up

The researcher behind a faulty study on black infant mortality will depart her university amid misconduct allegations.

Plagiarism Accusations Threaten To Upend Democrats' Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies

A federal judge in Puerto Rico issued a scathing order last week accusing Democratic prosecutors on the island of plagiarizing nearly their entire 241-page complaint that blamed oil companies for causing global warming. In the order Wednesday, district court judge Aida Delgado-Colon outlined how David Efron, the lead attorney representing Puerto Rico's capital city San Juan, appears to have plagiarized a similar but separate complaint that 16 Pu…

Federal Judge Accuses San Juan’s Climate Lawsuit of “Astonishing Plagiarism”

In a scathing rebuke of the coordinated climate litigation campaign’s copy-and-paste filing tactics, a federal judge in Puerto Rico has called the integrity of the lawyers involved into question. A recent order from U.S. District Judge Aida M. Delgado-Colón lambasted the outside counsel representing San Juan, Puerto Rico in its climate lawsuit against oil companies, filed in 2023. The rebuke – which was accompanied by a proposed $7,000 fine – wa…