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Uwe's avatar

Good post. - Claudine Gay's qualification for President probably was foremost one of being on the team that took down Roland Fryer, a true black scholar who belonged at Harvard for his academic chops. But his research led him to conclusions that were verboten. The pretense of assuming that Gay might not have been a DEI hire all the way is risible. We've had this unconstitutional practice for several decades already, it is business as usual, and one is told on a federal farming grant form that one is automatically considered a disadvantaged farmer unless one is a white male. A terrible thing to be. Like Larry Summers, who clearly had to be fired from Harvard just for mentioning a small and inconvenient truth.

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Jeff Melcher's avatar

Dr Michael E Mann, famed thin-skinned, litigious climatologist, has been banging on using his "X" account to take sides with Gay but I have not yet succeeded in soliciting his comments on statistician Edward Wegman.

Wegman, it may be remembered, destroyed Mann's statistical approach to paleo-temperature estimation., AND analyzed the networks of "peer review" (good ol' boy) processes that privilege certain branches of research while downgrading others. The analysis included a section defining concepts, which "includes long stretches of prose that mirror language from other published works." Mann and every member of the good ol' climatology networks cried "plagiarism!" and claimed Wegman was, therefore, wrong, and Mann, vindicated.

I'm not sure plagiarism is exactly the ground the left wants to fight on.

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