From “Jason Arday and the Perils of Being Black in Academia” (New England Journal of Medicine, August 20, 2026):
Jason Arday had the distinction of being the youngest Black professor in the University of Cambridge’s history. … Black academics know that we will always be held to a different standard … Prof. Claudine Gay was hounded by accusations of plagiarism and ousted by Harvard, who bent to those who simply could not stomach a world where a Black woman was president of such a storied institution.
As pointed out in Plagiarist Claudine Gay getting paid $3.1 million/year after “resigning” from Harvard, anyone with access to ChatGPT and/or Google could determine within less than one minute that Claudine Gay was still on the Harvard payroll (not “ousted”) and with a little more diligence, determine that she was being paid a higher-than-average wage.
If the NEJM didn’t fact-check this article what else aren’t they fact-checking?
Phil, thanks ever so much for your continued stalwart support of me and Harvard. You raise a great point on “facts” and fact-checking, both very important to Great Scholars like myself, the Singular Greatest World Scholar of Black Studies Plagiarism. You may have heard the expression that super-intelligent people “make their own luck” and I’ve found during my Voluminous Research over Decades that I can in fact make my own facts (no funny pun intended!). And Jason A. K Arday, also being a super-intelligent Scholar cut from the same cloth as me (colloquially speaking), realized this Truism too! I trust that detail will help you understand the NEJM piece a little better? And, what a bargain I am for Harvard, no?