The Jason Arday scandal, part deux

[KatiePricesKnickers]

As the book launch is coming, let the discussion continue.

First thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5563599-the-jason-arday-scandal?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share
This is lifted from the thread in the education section, which is an interesting summary
https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-great-and-unfortunate-story-of?r=8w0woc&triedRedirect=true

Or AIBU with not letting this fade away?

So @Sartre has been proved right.

And yes, it’s been medieval.

This thread is disgusting, many posts are horribly upsetting to read.

The story he concocted was so outrageous that once discovered, no newspaper could be expected to leave it alone; and given that it involved the reputation of Cambridge University it was legitimately in the public interest. And Arday seemed to guard his position fiercely - even using the police, which again is a story in the public interest. Cambridge University has to take a hard look at itself now. I wonder if it offered him any support at all?

What has the appointment of academic at Cambridge, got to do with you ? Are you on the Interview Panel, a student, or did he take your job ?

It did not deserve the seizing on and hounding. It’s an elite uni that a minuscule amount of people attend and care about,not the NHS or a government department. If he was white and NT the witch hunt would not have happened.

Well retraction watch tracks retractions, corrections, and academic integrity issues globally:

https://retractionwatch.com

Maybe MNs, Cofnas, Daily Mail commentators etc can scour this and find a new individual to hound to death? Or maybe several? Why stop at one.

MNHQ seem to think it doesn't break talk guidelines to let a thread stand that contributed to someone taking their own life. No respect for his family either.

Shame on them.

Arraywill be just fine

Well, that got old quick...* *

Oh please, nice try. Nobody cares about Cambridge Universityand its reputation they just don’t. Those that need to take a hard look at themselves are the racist,abelist SM obsessives that hounded him.

This was widely discussed in the first thread (I haven’t kept up as much with this one.) In brief though, I would say ‘Mind your own business, this has nothing to do with you and let the nice clever people at Cambridge appoint who they want, even if unqualified for it’ is perhaps not the best approach to a rigorous and effective system of appointing people.

Every little what? I didn't make a single comment.

We had 20 plus threads on here and it was all over sm about the salt path saga I believe the authors were white?

Of course the witch-hunt that ensued is also culpable, but if Cambridge had applied even the basics of sensible recruitment and fact checking, he would not have been put on a pedestal so high that the topple has led to this terrible outcome.

They paraded him like a shiny new thing and their lack of rigour in his appointment - because it suited them to appoint him - is how we got to a place where he was thrown to the lions so that people could tear him apart. Of course Cambridge has to be held to account.

dead but just fine

I’m not surprised, the anti autism and ADHD threads they let stand are dreadful.

Even if people want to argue that the non-story was a story as Cambridge would never have removed him without right-wing media hysteria pressure…why did they continue hounding him after his death? Not just his plagiarism or even how well he did his job, but then aggressively researching his school years, finding school mates who questioned whether he was non verbal…it actually went mad.

But anyway well done. Good job.

sorry for double post. Don't know what happened. Will self-report

@Thestealer
That beggars belief.
Have @mnhq no respect for the dead??

Aside from its enormous cultural significance, it receives public funding therefore the story is legally in the public interest.

There was zero excuse for the tearing apart. None. Those who did it are accountable, end of.

Barely. It has zero impact on the vast majority of UK people. None.

The Salt Path saga was absolutely not a multi-week, multi- front page media onslaught with people digging into their entire lives.

I still have no idea what the Salt Path controversy was and I did not have to make any effort to avoid it.

Best not to cloud the issue with facts.. (I've realised this on MN, facts are veritably frowned upon it seems)

That's simply not true. Even if you were to spend 10 seconds asking Google what impact Oxbridge has on British culture and society you would get a better understanding.

end of what?

Oh give over- nobody cares! The vast majority of people are too busy paying mortgages and worrying about the cost of living to give a shiny shit about Cambridge university much less want a witch hunt and hounding directed at one of their professors allegedly in their name.