Re: Liar of Trumpian Porportions Jason Arday, Cambridge black professor accused of plagiarism, is found dead

[Default] On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:57:39 -0000 (UTC), "Joe Hoft, The
Gateway Pundit" <[email protected]>, pretending to
be Spammy posted some news:

>His friends and collegues and critics agree that the only bigger liar than 
>Jason is feeble old demented Trump.

George Santos, Donald Trump, Jason Arday.  All cut from the same
cloth.

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He claimed to have been mute until age 11 and illiterate until 18,
disadvantages that did not deter him from getting a Ph.D., which he
earned by age 30. He claimed, too, that he had suffered from various
medical conditions throughout his life, including autism, epilepsy,
locked-in syndrome, testicular cancer, and a brain tumor. He was, by
his account, a world-class endurance athlete who had racked up a
variety of impressive feats, including running 600 miles in six days.
Then there were his academic accomplishments: Arday was billed as a
once-in-a-generation talent, whose research in his field—the sociology
of education—was “the best in the world,” according to Hilary Cremin,
the head of Cambridge’s faculty of education. He claimed to have
received a book advance of 1.4 million in unspecified currency for his
memoir, released this week by Simon & Schuster. It was a meteoric
rise, until it wasn’t.

Here is the truth about Jason Arday: A preponderance of evidence
suggests that he was a serial fabulist and unrepentant plagiarist who
successfully conned a British academic aristocracy so blinded by
do-gooder racial neurosis that it was unable to spot lies that would
have been obvious to any Joe Schmo. (Arday denied intentional
misconduct and suggested that his apparent plagiarism was a result of
his autism, which he said meant that he tended to learn through
imitation.) As evidence of those seeming lies mounted, the powerful
institutions that had made him continued to back him, doubling down
and raising the stakes. Simon & Schuster stood by its author—or
perhaps more accurately, stood by its product. Even as the evidence of
fraud became all but undeniable, the publisher did not merely declare
that it would press forward with Arday’s book; it had the audacity to
tout “the professionalism and integrity he has brought to every stage
of the publication.”

Everyone following this story would do well to engage in some
reflection. I will confess that, until yesterday, I had watched the
Arday saga unfold with some combination of amusement and distress.
Amusement because of the undeniable comic absurdity to the revelation
that the best and brightest minds at Cambridge had been so easily
deceived by a man who claimed to have run nine marathons in about as
many days on a fractured fibula, and who maintained that his future
had been predicted by a Brazilian shaman. Distress because I could
relate to some of the things that Arday might have experienced.
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