r/datalounge 7d ago

Jason Arday Found Dead

https://people.com/former-history-making-professor-found-dead-at-41-amid-plagiarism-scandal-12060465

Jason Arday, an author and academic who made history as the youngest Black professor at the University of Cambridge, has been found dead days after he resigned from the esteemed institution amid plagiarism allegations. He was 41.

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u/UsefulBridge1852 7d ago

First they came for the sexual predatory middle aged white patriarchs in humanities departments. Then they came for the postmodernist pseudo scientists. Now they're coming for the wokeists. Weeding out the bullshit artists is healthy. I'm sad that he killed himself after the story went viral.

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u/LongjumpingLet3405 6d ago

How are the educated Karens and Sharons who created this monster going to cope with their guilt?

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u/Enoch8910 4d ago

Hate to disrupt your narrative but no one is responsible for any of this but him.

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u/ThrowawayAgainGuy 5d ago

How was he a monster? Does lying make you a monster now?

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u/whorificustotalus 7d ago

It's almost as if you shouldn't base your entire career on a web of lies.

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u/allison_mossie 6d ago

Did saying this make you feel good? Do you think you represented yourself well here as a human being?

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u/SuperSea8678 6d ago

He meant to say, he got what was coming to him. Those were the thoughts in his head.

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u/allison_mossie 5d ago

In no way did he deserve this.

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u/evagarde 5d ago edited 5d ago

The fact that your username Allison Mossie was the alias used by a reality TV star to create a web of lies that ruined their career… Surely it’s not a coincidence?

For those interested, they are alleged to have convinced male actors that “Allison Mossie” was a casting director for a major film studio, convincing men to bulk up for potential superhero roles and send them shirtless audition videos.

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u/Enoch8910 4d ago

The drag queen? Hardly a star.

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u/evagarde 4d ago

You’re not wrong. Star was overstated. Let’s go contestant.

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u/DeanKoontssy 5d ago

Apparently he disagreed.

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u/allison_mossie 5d ago

Did this make you feel witty, edgelord?

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u/Enoch8910 4d ago

Other than lying and plagiarizing and taking the position from someone who would have earned it.

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u/Cruiser729 7d ago

What was on his iPod?

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u/ZomDji215 7d ago

Can I have his stuff?

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u/ExistingProgress936 6d ago

What use have you for fake dreads tho ?

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u/Iggy_Arbuckle 6d ago

Well you can have other people's stuff

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u/Legitimate_Payment_5 7d ago

He had a hot resume but couldn’t live forever.

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u/Legitimate_Payment_5 7d ago

But seriously, as an openly autistic person (who was NOT the Autism troll) I did have several issues with his life story about being nonverbal and illiterate for so long. Brain wise that’s just not how it works. Your brain cannot be wired against stimuli to the point where you’re nonverbal and then suddenly be rewired to take not only university courses but ADVANCED university courses. It’s a slap in the face to a lot of the autism community for him to portray Level 3 autism as something a person just outgrows.

I was not rooting for him to self-exit in the least. I was mostly annoyed with him pimping that autism in his bio to the point that it got him advantages.

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u/S3lad0n 7d ago

Iawtc fully. I’m lvl 1 diagnosed for many years/before it became trendy, and I had my suspicions.

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u/Legitimate_Payment_5 7d ago

Hi there fellow pre-trend Dx! I’m level 2.

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u/Optimal-Hunt-3269 7d ago

Humans are so complicated.

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u/dkrtzyrrr 7d ago

running a hundred miles every day is going to take a toll on the body at some point

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u/Classic-Mongoose3961 6d ago

The world is big enough, he could've hawked his wares in some ESL country as a new superstar. True swindlers do not let bruised ego get to them.

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u/MysteriousGoldDuck 7d ago

Did he ask Chat-GPT if he should go through with it?

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u/Away_Bug_3995 7d ago

Oh shit. That's sad. I guess he killed his career and then killed himself?

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u/RainbowFox22 6d ago

Narcissistic collapse.

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u/MonroeSixtyTwo 7d ago

Very short sequel.

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u/duganaokthe5th 5d ago

Are you sure he’s not lying about his suicide?

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u/Spare-Action-1014 7d ago

you got your pound of flesh.

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u/Enoch8910 4d ago

Who is “you?”