Jack Chatton

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@nottherealmarko haha this one is easy just close the curtains

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@AyoCaesar The trouble is that academics - like politicians and journos - are supposed to be able to take it because they are, in theory, committed to truth.

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@I_amMukhtar This is literally the one good thing to come out of the whole story.

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@BBCNews Our society is so cooked. Cambridge appoint a no-mark (racist). Then there is a social media backlash (also racist). Then ... the left call for Daddy to intervene.

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@Pulcys He's a funny shape

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@fesshole Love this. Although, thinking Freud, Milly Molly Mandy is placeholder for your Mum.

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@akkhan81 It depends what field you're in.

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@nmansoori_ That's interesting.

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@AnthonyGlees Arday also fabricated data. So it goes. He just wasn't a very good academic. He should i) never have been appointed and PR-ed ii) never have been hounded. Both i) & ii) were racist.

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@ShehabKhan Race fueled everything, as did racism. But if you want to be balanced, you should note that his heavily PR-ed appointment was racist. They just wanted a token poster boy, not top tier academic, so they pretended he was good.

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@mukumoya To address this you have to look at economic disadvantage. All the woke bods don't want to do that. That just want to randomly appoint a few black guys for show.

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@kevinjonheller The scandal wasn't about plagiarism or fabricated data really. It was about his appointment. Cambridge heavily PR-ed that appointment. It was racist to do so. That said, to say the story doesn't matter implies that academia & Cambridge don't really matter - perhaps that is right.

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@cszabla The death/redemption thing is post-Christianity still in play. Still, that guy should be blocked.

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@PepeIrish @kehinde_andrews @makeitplainorg I think I might be.

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@postdiscipline He also fabricated data. So it goes. He wasn't a crook or a criminal mastermind. He was just a bad academic. Everyone (including Cambridge's PR machine) should have left him be from the start.

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I don't think I agree. Standards have fallen a lot (e.g. grade inflation, pressure to publish). That was part of the fuel. But it is true that it was also intermixed with racism. Note that racism is on both sides. Cambridge was racist/exceptionalising to PR Arday's appointment so heavily.

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@academic_la The story should have been broken by the TES but Arday called the police on them. Still, I agree that raising this guy's profile has been very bad.

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@narindertweets I think he invented sources, right?

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@carolecadwalla No, this is how universities work now. Students are consumers. The intersection between dissatisfied consumers and a PR hiring is of public interest.