Your comment at 4:37 also went into moderation. So it does keep happening, and you might indeed want to try my suggestion.

Yes, as far as I know it was just one reporter (Jack Grove), and it was fairly late in the game. Then again, Arday had only gained fame in 2023 when he got the Cambridge appointment. Before then I don’t think he was all that well-known.

I also imagine that, even knowing nothing about what happened to Grove, reporters in Britain would be very wary of investigating Arday. It would be easy to predict that they’d be accused of being racists and haters of people with autism.

Just substitute in “claims” for “ideas” and “academic” for “intellectual”, and there ya go.

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* . . . possibly a paraphrase, possibly of a Bertrand Russell quotation

Not sure why this is to me. But that happened in 2025, not back in say, 2010 when they reported on his running 30 marathons in 35 days and didn’t report who organized any of the other marathons, quote any participants, list locations or dates, etc. Just ran whatever he emailed to the reporter. That kind of basic reporting would not be hostile or critical questioning, just Reporting 101. (“Which of your 30 marathons was the toughest? Where and when was that one? What medical treatment did you need for your fracture? And where was that?” Etc.)

I’ve seen no evidence that he’s been siccing the cops on reporters this whole time, I suppose it’s possible, but all I’ve seen is since his academic work was questioned, and the prior 15 years nobody did anything but take his unsupported word, apparently.

But the cops should have laughed him off the phone. That the cops did Arday’s bidding is not on Arday, that’s on their organization. Like I said, this is bigger than Cambridge, bigger than Arday, bigger than academia.

Arday sicced the police on a reporter who merely tried to investigate him. Arday claimed harassment and racism, and the police actually did an investigation although they didn’t find anything.

Furthermore, this isn’t a victimless crime. As the following article asks:

–Yuan Yi Zhu, “WHO HAD TO LOSE FOR JASON ARDAY TO WIN?”
https://instapundit.com/815093/

There are a whole lot of bright, hardworking, white/male/Asian applicants for such elite positions who just couldn’t make the cut because they were the wrong gender or race, so The Powers That Be gave that job to a DEI hire, however less qualified.

Then, as neo mentions, Arday has also damaged bright, hardworking, black scholars (or black professionals in general) because after Cambridge University hired and defended an obvious fraud DEI candidate, people are likely further suspicious of any black professional’s competence.

An all-around disaster.

Can higher education learn? We shall see.