Comment by bambax
8 hours ago
In this tweet he appears to support the racist POS who "outed" Jason Arday:
> "How should universities respond to the Arday scandal? Should they crack down on plagiarism and academic fraud? Ghent University's response, apparently, will be to fire the person who reported it."
https://x.com/paulg/status/2090439693334937963
This is an incredibly shitty thing to say. Nathan Cofnas is a proponent of "scientific racism" who thinks human races 1/ exist and 2/ have very different intellectual capabilities. (Unsurprisingly, his own "race" is at the top of this hierarchy.) He was fired from Ghent not because of the "Arday scandal", but because of his theories. This was the second time he was fired from a university. (He had previously been fired from Cambridge.)
People rushing to his defense can only do so for one of two reasons: they have a knee-jerk feeling that he's right and his victim is wrong, and are too lazy to research the facts, or they truly agree with his ideas on a fundamental level.
Both options are very, very bad.
According the the University it was for "Ghent University is shocked by the death of Professor Arday....recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter"[1] and as discussed on that page he was not fired (yet?) but was "imposed a disciplinary measure on a member of its research staff for a period of three months. A preliminary inquiry is also under way to determine if further disciplinary action is warranted."
So perhaps you appear to the one "too lazy to research the facts"?
[1]https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/updates-case-postdoctora...
If I remember correctly, Paul talked a lot about things that are ‘unsayable’ but his support for those going further than he was prepared to suggested at the things that he would to be able to say without losing status or power