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Academic who accused Jason Arday of plagiarism suspended by university
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Date: August 20th, 2026 3:26 PM Author: charcoal very tactful station An academic who accused the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarism has been suspended from his post at a Belgian university.
Nathan Cofnas, a self-defined "race realist", was among those to question Arday's work and achievements - prompting a weeks-long plagiarism row prior to his death on 14 August.
Cofnas said he was under investigation by Ghent University "for discriminating against Arday".
The university said a staff member had been notified of a "preliminary disciplinary investigation" and suspended as a precaution.
In a statement regarding Arday's death, its rector Petra De Sutter and vice-rector Herwig Reynaert said they took "recent public statements made by a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University regarding this matter very seriously", and had taken "appropriate action".
They said the university stood for "respect for human dignity and opposes discrimination, hatred and racism".
"We attach great importance to academic freedom and to open academic debate, even when views are controversial. However, that freedom is not unlimited.
"It goes hand in hand with responsibility and may be restricted in order to protect the rights of others."
They said Arday's death should "prompt reflection" and that lessons should be learned "regarding the way we treat one another both within and outside the academic world, particularly when people become the subject of public controversy".
Cofnas works as a postdoctoral researcher at the university's department of philosophy and moral sciences, according to his website.
His role at a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 after backlash to his view that, under a true meritocracy, black people would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment".
Cofnas claimed to have put Arday's work through plagiarism detection software which found that "many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source".
He also noted that a retired professor had previously raised concerns about Arday's subsequent academic articles, which led to two journals issuing correction notes.
Questions were also asked about Arday's claims that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, and 300 miles in three days for charity, which Arday said had raised more than £5m for charity, as well as running 600 miles on a treadmill in six days.
Arday - who became Cambridge's youngest black professor in 2023 - was found dead in Battersea, south London, having resigned as a professor of sociology of education the week prior.
The 41-year-old had faced weeks of media coverage over plagiarism allegations and questions about his achievements. He denied the claims.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevmrjd9lj1o |
Date: August 20th, 2026 3:32 PM Author: Arousing gunner these "people" are crooks and liars Here is the "rector" of the "university" that fired Cofnas: Petra De Sutter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_De_Sutter
Petra De Sutter (born 10 June 1963) is a Belgian gynaecologist and politician ... A member of the Groen [Green] party ... She is the first transgender minister in Europe.[3] She transitioned to female in 2004.[1] As a trans woman,[1] she became the first openly transgender Belgian to be on a party election list.[8] As member of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group ... .... becoming Europe's first transgender deputy prime minister, and the most senior trans politician in Europe.[23]
In October 2023, De Sutter criticised UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's speech at the Conservative party conference where he argued that his audience should not be "bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be" and that "a man is a man and a woman is a woman." She described Sunak's words as "hurtful and very disappointing" as well as "fuelling transphobia."[24] In September 2025, she decided to not join a trade mission to the United States due to "the current rules President Trump has issued," with Politico surmising she was referring to the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump on LGBTQ+ people.[31]
In January 2026, De Sutter, in her capacity as Rector of Ghent University, faced significant public and academic scrutiny following the discovery of fabricated quotes in a speech.[32]
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: Lascivious silver hell What was a right wing university professor doing in Belgium lol. What did he expect? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081056) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 2:18 PM Author: Arousing gunner this is the tranny's pre-trans pic https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HQPoJUbWQAA7I0v?format=jpg&name=small |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 2:38 PM Author: ocher floppy milk death wish Jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083289) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 3:46 PM Author: chestnut hospital deer antler "Questions were also asked about Arday's claims that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, and 300 miles in three days for charity, which Arday said had raised more than £5m for charity, as well as running 600 miles on a treadmill in six days."
Lol did that dude really claim this shit? This is like when a kid in elementary school makes shit up about a video game because his "dad knows someone who works at Nintendo." |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 3:53 PM Author: Arousing gunner Yes. That's just scratching the surface. The 30 marathons in 35 days, the last half dozen or so of those he ran with a broken leg but he carried on anyway. He invented several visiting positions at other universities, even though he already had a full chaired professorship at Cambridge. He couldn't speak until 11 and couldn't read or write until 18 because of his autism, except his childhood friends remember nothing like this. I could write for another 1/2 an hour like this. Here is a list of his fabrications I cribbed from twitter (it's in 3 parts): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HP6NzpeWMAA9UVs?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HP6N0EYW8AALoPJ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HP6N0eEWUAA6ANP?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 He was a conman.
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Date: August 20th, 2026 3:57 PM Author: Vigorous anal psychic could've be POTUS one day but he was cut short by racism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081022) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 3:59 PM Author: chestnut hospital deer antler "Claim you joined the pro snooker tour at age 10, a year before you could speak." LMAO LMAO LMAO wtf!!!!!!
You have to love the coverage of this shit as well. It'd be one thing if he just did some improper citations (even outright plagiarism) on some paper. But this guy may have actually been insane. And the insanity probably grew so great because every red carpet was rolled out for him. Such that when he actually got told "uh sorry you didn't do this" his mind must've shattered into a million pieces. |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:01 PM Author: costumed dun lettuce heaven it's just the emperor has no clothes shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081032) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:07 PM Author: chestnut hospital deer antler One of the most extreme examples imaginable.
Also did he put vaseline on his face for his utterly insane cambridge photo?
https://images.euronews.com/articles/stories/09/86/88/02/1536x864_cmsv2_4263535f-3e43-5b5a-b4d1-eb9219c3532f-9868802.jpg |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 2:40 PM Author: ocher floppy milk death wish So he's black George Santos (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083298) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:12 PM Author: Violent Plum Church Toaster What is this fucker's moniker?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Cofnas |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:18 PM Author: costumed dun lettuce heaven Cofnas was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1986 or 1987.[1][2] He was raised Jewish and grew up in Manhattan.[1] He developed an interest in hereditarianism when he was sixteen and taking courses at Columbia University.[1] Also while a teenager, he developed an interest in debunking the work of anti-semitic conspiracy theorist and evolutionary psychology professor Kevin MacDonald, but said that an academic mentor recommended he not write about it.[ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081069) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:22 PM Author: Violent Plum Church Toaster This only confirms for me that he has a moniker. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081079) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 10:56 AM Author: Lascivious silver hell Neither is "Cofnas" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50082678) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 2:52 PM Author: Garnet mediation The joooish deboonker was totally going to deboonk the antisemitic conspiracy theories but stopped because… uh… an advisor told him not to. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083339) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:21 PM Author: Lascivious silver hell In 2018, Cofnas argued in Human Nature that Kevin MacDonald's work promoting antisemitic tropes relied upon "misrepresented sources and cherry-picked facts" and that the "evidence actually favors a simpler explanation of Jewish overrepresentation in intellectual movements involving Jewish high intelligence and geographic distribution."[5][3] His arguments in the article reflected his broader view that there is "legitimate science on race differences"; in this case, that Jews have higher IQ scores on average.[6] (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081076) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 4:28 PM Author: Peach Bat-shit-crazy Idiot Ahem
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Date: August 20th, 2026 5:25 PM Author: Peach Bat-shit-crazy Idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081184) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 12:35 PM Author: chestnut hospital deer antler Hanania has one of the worst looks ever imagined. And that's saying something considering the two "men" next to him. Holy shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50082920) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 12:38 PM Author: Peach Bat-shit-crazy Idiot i think hanania looks worse but its pretty close, yeah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50082930) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 12:58 PM Author: chestnut hospital deer antler These niggas need to pick up a dumbbell at some point or something. Just totally awful.
It seems like middle aged jewish guys either become twinks or pot-bellied slobs. It's almost universal. |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 1:05 PM Author: Lascivious silver hell How can you get jacked when you're living the life of the mind? Scholarship calls. You either wither away or you balloon. No in between. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083014) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 1:08 PM Author: Peach Bat-shit-crazy Idiot wow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083025) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 2:05 PM Author: chestnut hospital deer antler I'd respect them more if they were legit huge. Like 400 lb beasts. The potbelly look with the shit posture is possibly the worst look.
Also to be fair, I am a big Sun & Steel fan. |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 1:08 PM Author: Peach Bat-shit-crazy Idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083023) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 6:06 PM Author: charcoal very tactful station The funniest thing about Cofnas is that hundreds of food and nutrition scholars cited his top works- dietary research papers about red meat intake and vegetarianism, and probably didn’t know anything about his race differences in IQ papers
https://x.com/arcticinstincts/status/2090472782933221632 |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 9:05 PM Author: Cracking ticket booth which criticizes pro-vegeterianism and pro-veganism for being driven by ideology, not health science, and warning that the absence of meat may cause nutrient deficiency to growing children. based (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081757) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 6:10 PM Author: heady vermilion liquid oxygen genital piercing The university official who led the charge for his firing is a gynecologist. See if you can guess the TWIST 🤡🤡🤡 https://x.com/kitten_beloved/status/2090485392281829376?s=46
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Date: August 20th, 2026 6:13 PM Author: Aphrodisiac bonkers base zhe did a major speech by AI and hallucinatory quotes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081292) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 6:13 PM Author: Pearl Boltzmann Crackhouse How dare they (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081293) |
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Date: August 20th, 2026 6:23 PM Author: yapping orchestra pit Defund academia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50081326) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 1:40 PM Author: Arousing gunner on a side note I'm shocked and surprised to learn that "Ghent" even has a "university" and what's more it even has a modestly respectable ranking https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/ghent-university |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 2:59 PM Author: Vigorous anal psychic mcwhorter with a good take on this: this guy is obviously a racist with bad intentions, but in this environment only someone like him would ever call this nonsense out. no one else will touch it out of fear of being called a racist. an actual racist isn't worried about that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083359) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 3:25 PM Author: Racy Theater Round Eye Cool story, Shlomo. He’s not a racist, he’s a race realist. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50083436) |
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Date: August 21st, 2026 3:24 PM Author: Racy Theater Round Eye Cofnas responds:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/how-i-became-the-scapegoat-in-the-jason-arday-affair-dc134088 |
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Date: August 23rd, 2026 4:28 AM Author: Arousing gunner gee whiz what a shock, USAID funded this “university” for decades https://x.com/mikebenzcyber/status/2091322950733406659?s=46 |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 2:30 PM Author: Arousing gunner unfired: https://x.com/nathancofnas/status/2093037465871540528?s=20 Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas · 22m I am grateful to Rector Petra De Sutter for allowing me to stay at Ghent University. I look forward to continuing to work on the project, “The Future of Liberalism,” for 60% of my working time for the remainder of my one-year postdoc.
I wish to personally thank Ambassador @BillWhiteUSA . It was beyond my imagination that such a person would take an interest in the fate of a postdoc. The Ambassador responded with great support which helped to bring about a just outcome. Thank you, @USAmbToBelgium and @StateDept for defending American values. I am proud of my country. |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 2:39 PM Author: Lascivious silver hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50097115) |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 2:49 PM Author: deranged travel guidebook nowag Lol at that photo. This guy looks like an amalgam of every biglaw attorney I've ever met
Edit: but unlike those attorneys, Cofnas is obviously principled and brave. |
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Date: August 27th, 2026 3:09 PM Author: Amethyst 180 Stead Famous Landscape Painting lmfao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895314&forum_id=2/en-en/#50097251) |
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