NY Times Smears ‘Racist’ Who Exposed Black Cambridge Prof Jason Arday as a Plagiarist
7th August 2026
The New York Times has finally noticed the academic credibility meltdown at one of the premier universities in the world, Cambridge: Ex-professor Jason Arday, a plagiarist and fabulist who rocketed up the academic ladder, enabled by gullible or perhaps intimidated fellow scholars, aided by lawyerly muscle and even Scotland Yard to keep doubters quiet.
Yet the Times article saved its harshest words for Arday’s exposers, smearing a scholar with the effrontery to challenge Arday’s ludicrous C.V. as “racist.”
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Reporters Jennifer Schuessler and Alexandra Alter treated Arday with the journalistic equivalent of raised eyebrows — yet reserved their true hostility for a scholar who dared expose Arday’s plagiarism. As “philosopher of biology” Nathan Cofnas wrote on X: “The only person explicitly smeared in the NY Times’ write-up of the Arday affair is me.”
As they habitually do. That’s what being Narrative Media is all about.