by Tom Woods on TomWoodsTV View my bio on Vigilante.TV: https://vigilante.tv/c/tomwoodstv [![Jason Arday and Our Embarrassing Academic Elite | Tom Woods Show #2786](https://vigilante.tv/lazy-static/previews/bc31bcbc-4876-4f3b-a0de-ce8112dae274.jpg)](https://vigilante.tv/w/qFFLD5QrmVU2krFTckctVy) The Jason Arday plagiarism and all-around weirdo and liar scandal told us something not only about the University of Cambridge but also about the whole higher-education racket: a great many left-liberal academics defended an obvious charlatan down to the very last moment even though his plagiarism and other problems were obvious to everyone. In this episode, Tom breaks down: - How Arday went from a PhD at Liverpool John Moores to a full professorship at Cambridge by age 37 — and why his dissertation prose alone should have disqualified him - The extensive, side-by-side plagiarism in his published articles, and the "corrections" journals quietly issued rather than retracting his work - The fabricated claims: a fictitious visiting scholar post at Ohio State, a phantom book deal with Palgrave Macmillan, inflated marathon and fundraising claims, and the wilder personal mythology (a mugging that "gave him epilepsy," a coma, a Brazilian shaman's prophecy) that a major publisher was reportedly still planning to print - How Arday responded to scrutiny — including contacting the Metropolitan Police over a professor's simple request for clarification - Why Cambridge only moved once the scandal threatened to embarrass the broader progressive project, not because the scholarship itself was fraudulent - The hard numbers from the Compact article "The Statistics Behind the Jason Arday Scandal" comparing publication records by race and rank across top sociology departments — and what they reveal about hiring standards - Two more cases in the same pattern: University of Maryland Eastern Shore president Heidi Anderson's plagiarized 1986 dissertation, and historian Kerry Greenidge's award-winning (and now unraveling) book "The Grimkes" - Why Tom's own Columbia dissertation — "Ever Ancient, Ever New: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era" — has nothing to fear from this kind of scrutiny, and what that says about what a dissertation is actually supposed to be (Ep. 2786 of the Tom Woods Show) Sponsors: Expat Money - https://ExPatMoney.com/Woods Agorist Tax Advice - Pick up a free copy of the brilliant Matthew Sercely's Agorist Tax Toolkit at: AgoristTaxAdvice.com/woods Articles Mentioned: "Another College President Plagiarized Her Dissertation. That's Just the Tip of the Iceberg," by Luke Rosiak - https://www.dailywire.com/news/maryland-college-president-heidi-anderson-plagiarized-dissertation "The Statistics Behind the Jason Arday Scandal," by Jukka Savolainen and Kevin McCaffree - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-statistics-behind-the-jason-arday-scandal/ Links Mentioned: The Preparation, by Doug Casey, Matt Smith, and Maxim Smith - https://www.tomwoods.com/preparation https://UnapprovedLibrary.com Show notes page: https://tomwoods.com/2786 Other Important Links: https://SupportingListeners.com https://TomSchoolofLife.com https://LibertyClassroom.com https://RonPaulHomeschool.com https://NationalDivorce.com Audio & Video Production & Thumbnails by: Podsworth Media https://podsworth.com Check out the Podsworth App: Use code WOODS50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Tom Woods Show! My full Podsworth ad read BEFORE & AFTER processing: https://youtu.be/tIlZWkm8Syk Intro & Outro audio & video by Chris Williams, Chris Beeman, & Robert Pearson of Podsworth Media, 2024. Chapters: 00:00 Cambridge Plagiarism Scandal 00:55 Sowell Book Plagiarism Tale 04:11 Arday Dissertation Word Salad 05:46 Plagiarism And Fake Credentials 08:39 Police And Legal Threats 10:23 Sponsor Plan B Residency 12:00 Fabricated Research And Resignation 16:01 Book Proposal Tall Tales 19:04 Defenders And Hiring Process 23:20 Sociology Hiring Statistics 27:07 Sponsor Tax Planning Pitch 29:13 Heidi Anderson Dissertation Case 31:49 Kerry Greenidge History Scandal 34:25 Woods Dissertation And Academia 39:18 Alternative Education Preparation 41:47 Unapproved Library Classics 44:25 Wrap Up And Links ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS8sEeJkj1E *** [**Check out today's video..!**](https://vigilante.tv/w/qFFLD5QrmVU2krFTckctVy)

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