Bollocks.
boxes including black, young and neurodivergent, and he seemed to have acheived a lot in the face of those disadvantages. Of course, we now know this was a pack of lies and fantasies, which Cambridge should have known, and could have easily found out if they had bothered to do a proper background check.
You really seem to be laboring under the false impression that I don't respect soft sciences.
I didn't use the term. Read that again. One more time. Here let me repeat it for you: I am not the one who used the term.
Isn't that that enough?
For ◊◊◊◊'s holy sake, I DIDN'T EMPLOY THE DAMNED TERM!
Honestly, I think it's an across the pond thing. Google says enquiry is a request, where inquiry is a formal investigation in UK speak, but US generally uses inquiry for both.
From a woman who is uniquely qualified to know and understand what it is like to be vilified, cancelled and receive death threats as a member of academia because she dared to question the preferred narrative.
I wouldn't have thought so, it wasn't his PhD work that was cited was it?
When done well, the soft sciences can be pretty scientific. The problem right now is that so often they aren't done well. We see signs of that in things like the replication crisis, which is also hitting some of the harder sciences like medicine.
Do you think his subsequent work radically improved from his thesis writing? That would actually be rather remarkable, if true.
"Horrified"...my foot.
For the umpty-ninth time, discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, sexuality, religion, disability or pregnancy is illegal in the UK, under Employment Law. Employers are not allowed to discriminate, except under limited circumstances. For example, schools or care homes of a particular religious denomination or where a personal characteristic such as a disability or gender is inherently specific to a job role. The UK is not the USA. There is no legal requirement to take on 'DEI' hires. Stop making up bogeymen. There were four shortlisted candidates for the professorship and Arday was the successful one.Bollocks.
He was picked because he ticked a lot of "EDI"
Yes and no. Ideally yes, and often yes. But there's a whole lot of history that isn't necessarily fact. History is written by the winners, and what the winners say happened isn't always what actually happened. Especially when the thing you're trying to uncover is why it happened. We don't even have to go that far back in history to see this in action... The way Democrats and Republicans describe events happening right now are vastly different interpretations of events. Hell, can you imagine if the only surviving history books end up being Trump's twitter posts? There will be the fact of those posts existing, but it doesn't mean that what Trump says is factual in and of itself.
Give me a boring stem person who lied and cheated in their academic career, and had plenty of evidence of such lies and got hired into a position they were unqualifed for, then were boosted by the university that hired them and lauded as a great academic mind, who then tried to intimdate and silence people who said "hey, they're a cheat and here's the evidence", and we'll see whether or not I give a ◊◊◊◊ about it.
Arday was not 'unqualified'.
If he wasn't a black dude, he'd never have gotten so far.
I think the opposite is true. The replication crisis exposed something that was the norm and is now being fixed. Essentially papers pre-2011 or so in many social sciences, particularly those making grand claims, are not worth the paper they are printed on, because of p-hacking and academic degrees of freedom.
Utter nonsense. As mentioned before, once you get in at entry level, your previous qualifications no longer matter. For example, one of my bosses in Insolvency Practice left school at fifteen, failed his eleven-plus, yet went on to be one of the highest earning Insolvency Practitioners in the industry. Nobody cared he had no O-Levels, never mind a good degree or a chartered accountancy like his peers. (I should say, regulations have now tightened up and you have to pass the tough JIEB exams.). The point is, Arday WAS a PhD and he was a Professor. He became a Professor at Glasgow Uni in 2022. He was not taken on 'because he was a black dude'.