Harvard Covered Up Secret Plagiarism Probe into President Claudine Gay, THREATENED the NY Post

Harvard can’t come back from this.

The New York Post confronted Harvard with evidence of Claudine Gay’s plagiarism back in October, but the university “threatened” the newspaper in an attempt to keep it silent.

WOW: Harvard claimed it initiated a probe of Gay’s work when it learned about the examples of plagiarism.

Instead, it used Clare Locke, the top defamation law firm in the US, to threaten the journalists who brought those examples to the school’s attention.https://t.co/STclyZtG1Z

— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) December 13, 2023

CHILLING: After learning its president plagiarized multiple academic papers Harvard hired a high powered law firm to threaten journalists not to report the story. It is allowing the president to rewrite her papers to include attribution. pic.twitter.com/byUFWXKrcH

— @amuse (@amuse) December 13, 2023

Harvard knew about the plagiarism issue for nearly four months, claimed in October to have already finished its review, called in a defamation lawyer for an outlet that was asking about it, and then yesterday, said the review was completed just this week. https://t.co/2QAslncQn2

— Sarah Bedford (@sarahcbedford) December 13, 2023

 

Three esteemed academics have now come forward and said that Claudine Gay's appropriations of their work amounted to "plagiarism." Even Harvard's student paper found that Gay's papers violated the university's own academic integrity policies.

How can she continue as president?

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 13, 2023

Harvard covered up secret plagiarism probe into president Claudine Gay during antisemitism storm — threatened The Post

By Isabel Vincent, NY Post, Dec. 12, 2023:

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Harvard University covered up a high-level investigation into whether its controversial president was a plagiarist — and used an expensive law firm to threaten The Post over our own probe.

The college announced Tuesday morning that it had investigated Claudine Gay over whether some of her academic work was plagiarized and had cleared her of breaching the college’s “standards for research misconduct.”

Instead, it said that she would request four corrections in two publications to insert citations and quotation marks that were originally “omitted.”

But The Post can disclose that Harvard spent weeks failing to come clean about Gay being under investigation — staying quiet even when she was hauled in front of Congress for disastrous testimony on how the Ivy League college is dealing with antisemitism on campus.

Harvard only disclosed the investigation when the university’s governing body, Harvard Corporation, said it unanimously stood behind her despite a firestorm of criticism for her evidence to Congress.

Harvard’s public statement on the allegations of plagiarism came a day after a conservative activist posted questions on X about citations in Gay’s 1997 PhD dissertation……

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