Jason Arday

[robp135]

What’s people’s thoughts on this story?

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

www.theguardian.com

 

[thfcsteff]

It's a wild story, and honestly, I'd like to look into it more.
On the face of this piece he strikes me as someone who most certainly has lied with increasing scope, and in the process undermines the many legitimate issues which he says he was a victim of. I have no doubt he suffered, that much is clear, but yes, no excuse for lying and certainly not plagiarism on such a scale which he appears to have engaged in. The footnote/potential semi-mitigator here would be his early Autism/development delay diagnosis.
A sad story in many ways.

 

[robp135]

It's a wild story, and honestly, I'd like to look into it more.
On the face of this piece he strikes me as someone who most certainly has lied with increasing scope, and in the process undermines the many legitimate issues which he says he was a victim of. I have no doubt he suffered, that much is clear, but yes, no excuse for lying and certainly not plagiarism on such a scale which he appears to have engaged in. The footnote/potential semi-mitigator here would be his early Autism/development delay diagnosis.
A sad story in many ways.

Is that actually true though? Being illiterate is said to have been a lie so that may be as well. Also seem to remember reading something once about how autistic people have a limited capacity to lie.

I take more of an issue with Cambrigdge here tbh. There is absolutely no way they didn’t know he was full of brick but they were happy to take advantage.