The death of Jason Arday was not in vain

Jason Arday, the disgraced academic who committed suicide last week after he was exposed as a total fraud, did not die in vain. The case of Jason Arday has not only exposed the intellectual rot in the field of sociology; it has also exposed the business-as-usual biases of the mainstream media and of the blogosphere. Most of the news articles and blog posts (both in the U.S. and the U.K.) reporting or commenting on the Jason Arday affair mention Nathan Cofnas’s damning substack post exposing Arday’s alleged misconduct (i.e. the post that set this entire affair into motion), but few, if any, of these articles and blog posts actually bother to provide a link to Cofnas’s original exposé, which is titled “DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge“. Hmmm. (In addition to the above links, I have also archived Cofnas’s devastating hit piece here for good measure in case our big tech overlords were to try to erase it from the Internet.) In addition, the death of Jason Arday was not in vain for…