I am concerned about the plagiarism in the Claudine Gay case, but I suspect that there is more plagiarism than people may think. The problem with Claudine Gay's appointment as a professor at Harvard on a salary of $900,000 per year and was then appointed as the President, is that she nothing like the academic record anyone else appointed to those positions would require. As noted, she has only published 11 articles, none original work, never written a book or chapter in a collective work. I know someone who was recently appointed as a Professor of Surgery. Prior to his appointment he has been the sole, leading or co-author of around 230 papers. He has written two books and several chapters in the 'standard texts' in his surgical specialty. That would be the typical profile of the sort of person previously appointed to Professorships at Harvard. Gay's appointment was an absolute travesty of 'natural justice' from the start.

The people complaining about student loans should question why she will STILL collect a $900K check from Harvard. 🙄

Black Privilege

The real problem is the intellectually bankruptcy. Gay showed it in abundance. As president of Harvard she was supposed to be one of the sharpest tools in the box. But taken out of her sheltered woke academic environment and challenged in Congress, it became abundantly clear that she couldn't reason her way out of a wet paper bag. You can bet she's not the only one.

It's not a blow to DEI. It's a blow to academic integrity. Higher education is filled with corrupt grifters.

Meritocracy is the only way forward, not discrimination, be it positive or negative.

Well said Peter. Harvard and others have shown actually what they are now espousing.

She should have been booted out not allowed to resign

If people knew what was happening in Med School admissions and residence programs surrounding "Equity," they would be shocked and fearful of seeking healthcare.

She still works at Harvard on a salary of 900k as a prof !

Love Peter. He's a truth teller and a character. 💚 They *SHOULD* analyze Jill Biden's thesis.

Why is a Harvard education still worth $80k/yr? They used to only accept the best and brightest applicants, now it depends on your skin color and beliefs. They used to be taught by the best, now it is based on your political view. They used to be held to the highest standards, now failings are excused. A school with the reputation for turning out the best and brightest, a reputation took almost 400 yrs to achieve, has been destroyed in just a handful.

How many decades did it take for Harvard to build a reputation for excellence only to go woke and see it destroyed almost overnight? How many decades if even possible to rebuild that reputation?

Thank you for having me on, Andrew!

I remember when I wrote my Ph.D. thesis, one of my primary concerns was that the references, quotations and attributions be exacting and correct. It never crossed my mind to plagiarize! Now I know I made a mistake, if I had in fact plagiarized I would have finished earlier and reduced my effort considerably and I would also have begun to place myself in the position of becoming the president of some University or other!

How is plagiarism any different from the whole corrupt affirmative action programs? I would be terrified to have a black doctor who had not had decades of good reviews. Would not have a young black engineer, or attorney, because I would have no idea if they are actually qualified to do what they ae doing.

About time originality was taken seriously - regardless of skin colour. If you haven't got an original idea, don't fret, there's still a job for you. But don't LIE, don't LARP as something you're not.

As a old Soldier used to say to me, when speaking about competence, you cannot make "Swans out of Ducks"

What do you expect from these people her whole life is probably one big sham😢

I'll sign on to DEI as soon as there are only 13% blacks in the NFL and NBA.

There is also a very plausible accusation of data falsification against her. She of course refuses to release the raw data so it's difficult to prove.

Peter is great!!! He speaks the truth.

I read "Doctor" Jill's so-called dissertation. It had all the scholarly merit of a 10th grade science project. I doubt it was plagiarized, just because anything she could have plagiarized would have been better than anything she could have written.

STEFANIK: “DOES PLAGIARISM VIOLATE HARVARD’S CODE OF ETHICS AND ACADEMIC STANDARDS?” GAY: “IT DEPENDS ON THE CONTEXT.” 😂😂😂

She had a dream', that one day she would be judged not on the context of her plagiarism, but on the content of her character,,,,,,,,,

I can remember a lecturer when I was studying for one of my degrees going overboard about plagiarism and how work should be original. How standards have changed. I wonder what the reason is here?

Given 'higher education' is the well spring from which excellence and expertise is drawn for almost all endeavours, the implications are frightening. How many incompetents and frauds are finding their way into positions of authority in areas such as engineering (mentioned here), government and law?

Harvard : Let's hire this person based only on how she looks, what could possibly go wrong,,,,,,,,,,,

Evidently workplace diversity requires an equal balance of frauds, incompetents, and sociopaths.

It's always somebody else's damn fault.

I wouldn't put Glaudine Gay in charge of the cleaning cupboard.

Her issue was her lack of leadership on the safety for students on campus for all. The plagiarism is secondary but important

Posters should follow Peter. He is a Highly intelligent researcher. What he is saying about the institutions and DEI in American institutions is absolutely true. By the way ex President of Harvard Claudine Gay has only resigned her position as President. She is still employed on the faculty earning (allegedly) hundreds of thousands of dollars. A classic example of DEI in action.

Do people really want to trust doctors, engineers, lawyers, accountants or any one who benefitted from affirmative action ?

The delicious irony is, that with the development of AI and comparative search functions, it makes it easier than ever to uncover plagiarism and publish side by side irrefutable comparisons.

Yeah Harvard said something about how much she wanted to "make corrections" (to attribute the work properly) 🙄 Also either CNN or MSNBC said something so cringey "she hasn't actually been accused of stealing other people's ideas, it was more like sloppy attributions!" 😆😆 Oh, okay then! That's not the literal definition of plagiarism or anything. I saw a side by side comparison and it was an entire page 99% word for word. 🤦🏼‍♀️ She's a mediocre hack, an elitist, part of the power structure of "get rid of WhyT" DEI purveyors of mediocrity. What she did was so unbelievably lazy, they had to know or just didn't care. It's cronyism, they used to call it the good old boy network! It IS corruption.

I love Peter! I hope he is not being too optimistic.

Why was this woman paid $900,000 a year in the first place?

Corruption is the norm in this admin. Corruption is gravitational. It oozes from top to bottom.

call it what it is...BLACK PRIVILEGE

"Obama came to her defence".. well *of course* he did, that is really him behind those glasses..

Anyone who’s writing a thesis knows the pains that one Hass to go through to make sure that you were not plagiarizing. This was wilful misconduct

Let's Go Brandon!

A quick glance at parliament shows it is already here no progress forwards no improvements to anything but Wall St is making record profits

Plagiarism is a morally wrong, full stop. Of course this was a box ticking appointment.

Plagiarism is cheating so she is a cheat. Cheating is OK is not a great message to send to all those impressionable minds she has access to

They are all frauds 😳

This is, of course, happening throughout institutions and organisations, not just Universities.

Makes 1984 look like Utopia!

Peter seemed a very clever boy! Enjoyed it thanks

Would be funny if Jill could no longer call herself "doctor".

Discrimination Exclusion Indoctrination

She is still getting paid $1,000,000 / year from Harvard. D.I.E pays very well for those who check the correct Equity boxes.

So well stated!

❤ Professor Boghossian. Thank you both. 🙏🏾🇺🇸❤️

Every work place should diversify intelligence. There should have as many dumb people as smart people in all companies.

This is very reminiscent of the M.L.K. plagiarism scandal (also involving a doctoral thesis). Covered up BIG TIME by the media in the U.S, as well as by Boston University.

She wasn't ousted. She's still there on the same enormous pay with a different job title. She was moved by the board so they could keep faith with Wokism. The official line was that she "resigned", they obviously cooked up this face saving out for the university.

They need to go after everyone that ever used in her dissertation in any way that plagiarizes someone else's work! It dilutes the hard work that everyone else that actually put the time in

I love GB news - keep up the good work. Do you think the day will come when the BBC might allow Peter to offer this same point of view, without the interviewer closing him down or the camera/microphone ‘malfunctioning’?

The Harvard motto is Veritas. Makes me smile even now.

We've never lived in a fair world. It's about who you know that gets you where you want to go. The people demanding "equity" are the ones gaming the system.

If you are matching proportionality what you are rewarding is not based on skill or merit but on fertility.

We need people like him!👏👏👏

I knew Jill would get accused eventually !

Nobody takes Dr Jill seriously in the US

'Alas poor Yorick' I claim that phrase as mine.

We are living Atlas Shrugged🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Peter did a great job at highlighting how bad things have gotten but I'm afraid it is far worse than that. What he said BARELY scratches the surface of the problem. A few statistics will reveal that this(DEI/affirmative action) may be one of the biggest scandals in US history. I recently did a deep dive into the subject more specifically as it relates to IQ testing. It turns out the IQ gap for African Americans has remained static for the last 50 years. This likely means whatever environmental effects may have had on AA IQ historically were completely bridged by the 1970s. The gap is around 15 points(give or take a point or two in the most generous of cases) and the distribution of IQ among AA has a standard deviation of about 12 - 13 while that of whites is 14.5 - 15. The fact that this is the current state of things is irrefutable to everyone but a handful of crackpots. What some people like to argue is that this difference is mostly due to the environment though the evidence runs contrary to this narrative and points to it being 70 - 80% genetic. However this is neither here nor there, as it stands the gap is real and it is 15 points. Of course you could argue that we need to do more to change the environmental conditions but the reality is that everything but the kitchen sink has been thrown at this(trillions of dollars) without change hence why they are now resorting to ever more racist and oppressive policies in order to bring about their desired equality of outcome. If we were to take the gap and respective standard deviations and crunch some numbers we arrive at the following conclusions. In theory the smartest AA in the US should have an IQ that does not exceed 158. Of course there is a small chance it could be higher but the most likely scenario is that it is around 158(the probability halves at 160, 1/3rd at 161 and so on and so forth such that by 170 the probability is something like 0.7%). This means that as a per capita there are around 2300 white Americans that are smarter than the smartest AA and when we factor in their respective population numbers that ratio rises to 12,800 to 1. What this essentially means is that if there was a job that hired solely on IQ and the requirement was an IQ of at least 158 there would be 12,800 eligible whites and only 1 eligible black person. Mind you I am using a SD of 13, if I use a SD of 12 the smartest AA has an IQ of 151 not 158 and the ratio would be 78,000 to 1. If it isn't clear by now how ridiculous things have gotten with DEI vs how things aught to be if we operated on a purely meritocratic basis the following example will break it down further to you. The US military uses a form of IQ test for their recruits and up until recently had no qualms about rejecting people or rank ordering them based on these tests. Of course being a military officer isn't only about being intelligent however you will find a strong positive correlation with rank and IQ. In fact officers considered for flag rank(generals) are almost entirely ones that scored in the 93rd to 99th+ percentile(delineated as Category I and is, or rather was a policy of the military until recent DEI hires) which translates to an IQ of 123 or higher. The ratio of white people to AA that would qualify is 168 to 1 for the bare minimum rank of brigadier general. The US army currently has 270 generals. Based on this information the maximum amount of AA generals in the US army should not exceed 1.6(rounded up to 2 and both likely one stars) if the system was purely meritocratic. Unless of course you want to argue that AA are superior to whites in non-IQ related metrics such as leadership and bravery but since the military itself screens for IQ in their selection setting an entry threshold of 123 that point is moot and also very racist as it lacks any evidence whatsoever. Currently in the US army there are 19 one star, 15 two star, 8 three stars and 1 four star African American generals. This is 9.5 times above expectation for one star generals and orders of magnitude greater than that for all the other generals. The odds get increasingly astronomical once we get to two three let alone four star generals. OBVIOUSLY this is entirely due to affirmative action and DEI essentially promoting in great excess certain groups in positions of authority in an entirely unmeritocratic way. If the system was purely meritocratic the sad reality is that the highest positions in academia, STEM, judges, etc would be filled almost exclusively by Whites(including a disproportionate amount of Jews) and Asians. I say this with a heavy heart but unfortunately this is what the facts reveal. PS: AA account for 16% of US army generals which is 4 percentage points above their representation in the US population so IQ aside they are 25% over-represented. When we factor in IQ they are 2600% over-represented. When we also factor in rank the over-representation is astronomical.

Surprised that no one remembers Biden using speeches by Neil Kinnock back in the 80s . It was a big story back then .

So effectively we now know Harvard does not produce the best, in fact, far from the best

I went to a crappy online school in 2007. We had a plagiarism checker back then where you could upload your document and have it checked. If you submitted something that was plagiarized, you would be expelled.

I wonder how many people have been harmed or even died because of not having the best person for the job doing that job. DEI does not guarantee something will be better.

Fxxx yeah! Peter is at the forefront of this operation, and he's not messing around.

I worked on an automotive project 12 months after the design was completed and 3 months into testing, a new head engineer was hired, he was known by those that had worked for him for claiming credit for work he never did, within a month he changed his title to Chief vehicle architect and told any/everyone outside the company he had designed the vehicle from day 1, where there is money there is corruption, where there us a lot of money,,,,,

She was NOT forced out…soon enough.

ty, that was probably the best explanation about this issue i have heard yet!!!

Calling Claudine Gay intelligent and worthy as Harvard Pres. is like calling Kwanza a real holiday..

"Dr" 😂 Biden? How dare they!!!

Bravo!

Damm good.

What smart person would want to drop $300.000 on a degree from a US (UK next?) elite university degree now?

If Jill has plagiarized her doctoral thesis, then by all means, go after her also!

Claudine gay , a classic example of making a silk purse out of a sows ear !

When I was at NYU, evidence of plagiarism in a paper resulted in an automatic zero grade. Period.

It's come to Cambridge and Oxford look at York university 😮

When you hire someone to Ghost write your dissertation it’s no sweat off them to make it easy for them so they plagiarize because the worst thing the fake PhD could ever do is to blame to ghostwriter which would expose themselves as liars and thieves with no confidence whatsoever.

When you pick your candidate from 7% of the population, how do you know you got the best candidate. Just ask Justice Jackson, or Kamala Harris?

Harvard is a big business and leaving it to be run by an academic is expecting too much. Some universities bring back successful alumni to run them. It makes donors feel confident in their contributions and allows a President with a business background to fund raise.

If you have the money, you can get anything. Remember the movie, 'Catch me if you can' when the guy passed himself off as a Pilot and also a Doctor. Frightening.

She beginning to turn into her real self. Watch.

Remember she left for plagiarism, not what was said about the Jews...that was OK.

“To the privileged, equality feels like oppression”

It’s so simple to put a reference to sentence. I teach in a Doctorate program. It’s not hard to miss a few citations in a dissertation. However, her misses are repeated. When I was writing my dissertation, I kept excel spreadsheets to keep track of citations and images used for the document. It’s a lot of book work. Then, you need to get approvals to use images from other publications. That’s a hassle too. But, it must be done.

I don’t understand. I’m from an Eastern Europe country and I was PhD Professor at University of Medicine. We have a computer system who verifys all the thesis for the students, before they sustain them at the finish of school. How is possible in US to not make this verifications to a thesis of PhD professor?

This is what "equity" gets you.

DEI is very dangerous. Academic promotions should only be given on merit. If you promote people only on DEI criteria, then when the situation at Harvard occurs, the credibility of institutions and peoples’ resumes completely disintegrates. The result will be fewer applications to universities and the demise of academic standards. Very sad to see.

Think about DEI IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS.

❤ Peter Boghossian!

I don't know about her convincing. I'm convinced she's a sociopath.