My "read" is that Arday is a not great academic who got by on his charisma and is somewhat of a teller of yarns

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BSky reaction to the Jason Arday story puzzling to me. Yes, it's absolutely driven by the worst online racists. But the evidence of plagiarism is pretty clear, and the doctoral thesis is really ropey. That matters. What am I missing?

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also there's two separate sets of accusations for Arday; he got the TES story - done by legitimate journalists and credible academics - killed by legal threats, and then an online racist stumbled upon the material separately.

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plus a *separate* set of questions about his version of his personal biography, which seems to take some creative interpretations of facts.

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to contextualize it for non-academics: Claudine Gay committed 'plagiarism' in the sense of going 3mph over the speed limit (reusing boilerplate descriptions of common datasets and models), Arday is doing it in the sense of going 250mph in a school zone (lifting quotes from interviews)

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