Nathan Cofnas
@nathancofnas
Philosopher of biology
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“How I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair”
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@galtontheroller She used ChatGPT to write her inaugural speech. It was full of fabricated quotes.
I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.
The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party.
I am under investigation by my university for discriminating against Arday
I agree with one thing Simon Baron-Cohen said: "There has to be accountability at lots of levels."
The first thing that should be done is that Simon should be reprimanded. In this interview, he uttered several complete and total lies and confabulations
Get liars out of academia
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.@nathancofnas did the work that Cambridge, the press, and dozens of other British institutions were too cowardly to do by exposing Jason Arday. So naturally, he has rallies denouncing him and gets death threats.
Cofnas joined the show to ID the greatest villains of the saga: Academic elites who perpetuate a system of DEI that means hiring and promoting unqualified people purely based on skin color or other irrelevant traits.
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Hey @sbaroncohen, before telling lies about me (that I made false plagiarism accusations and said “without DEI there would be no black professors in universities”), did you inquire about *my* mental health?
I am more autistic than Jason Arday was.
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I included this moving with Arday’s friend, world-leading autism expert, Simon Baron-Cohen in my piece. I urge you to listen to it. Not just because he talks about his loving gentle friend but because he also sets down a precise chronology of events.
Arday was cleared of plagiarism under Cambridge’s rules: that the award-giving institution investigates. He accompanied Arday to Liverpool John Moores in February. He was found to have credited the underlying work but incorrectly cited it on each occasion. He was cleared of plagiarism. It was Cambridge’s reversal of its initial decision that damned him. He was literally thrown to the mob.
In the next 9 days, Baron-Cohen says his mental health spiralled.
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I often wonder if people realize they're caught up playing silly word games.
This is just defining Cofnas' restatements of Harvard's findings to be racism. It's not evidence he's racist by any traditional or sensible definition.
Does she know she's not being coherent?
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Rowling's next book- Hogwarts implements a DEI program for muggles because it's only prejudicial attitudes holding them back from learning magic
@ExInspectorBDS I read Cofnas's 2024 Substack post, which is summarised (I believe fairly) here. In my view, Cofnas's 'race realism' is racism. Full link below.
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This is one of the most damning things I have ever read about the BBC. A 6-year PR campaign puffing up Arday, and when it all came crashing down the Beeb was missing in action. And then tried to turn Nathan Cofnas, who broke the Arday story, into the "real story"
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A Black Man’s Defense of Nathan Cofnas
First, claims about genetic differences in average intelligence between racial groups aren’t immoral. They’re either true or false based on the evidence. A belief about what the data shows can be wrong—sure. But it can’t be evil.
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1 - at this point after learning about arday's death last friday, thought we'd be talking about what needs to be done with the faculty and admins at cambridge who hired him. no, instead
2 - a faction of the british left and racialists are trying to make him into a martyr!
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.@jk_rowling, who is smeared for sex realism, calls me a bad word for applying the same logic to race
More than one thing can be true. Nathan Cofnas is a racist. No argument there.
Also true: Arday claimed to have been non-verbal until the age of eleven. He span a false narrative about being autistic and mute, then learning to speak and write so well he gained a PhD. What harm did he do to parents with children who're genuinely non-verbal, by selling them false hope?
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15k people advertising their own inadequacy. They'd probably point the gun the wrong way.
It's an incredible indictment of our society that it contains so many people who would rather attack those who reveal fraud than those who commit it.
Hey @BBCNews, this what an actual "witch hunt" looks like: a mob in the town square whipping up hatred against a single individual. By contrast, documenting the fraud of a famous professor at a prestigious university is usually called "journalism."
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There is an anti-Cofnas hate rally in Trafalgar Square with ~15,000 attendees. If I were in London there is a real possibility that I would be murdered.
1000s of academics & journalists knew the truth about Jason Arday for more than a year. Now you know why no one said anything.
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London — I’m at the memorial attended by thousands of DEI supporters and leftist radicals for disgraced academic and serial hoaxer Jason Arday. The speakers repeatedly target academic @nathancofnas for breaking the story about Arday’s plagiarism.
Labour MP Diane Abbott was one of the speakers who smeared Cofnas.
Arday k—lled himself after journalists revealed he had lied about his academic work and purported major life accomplishments. He delayed the truth by siccing police and lawyers on journalists early on.
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