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Cambridge Academics Prop Up Jason Arday As a Blameless Martyr
The late Jason Arday. (Photo credit: Kim Lang) Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today. —Many thanks, Benjamin Ryan Members of the Cambridge University branch of the United Kingdom’s top academics union have not given up on portraying the criticism faced by the late Jason Arday as the mere product of racial animus.
The DSA Boss Who Rails Against Rich Landlords Has Rich Landlord Parents. I Found the Receipts.
For a Free Beacon investigation, I obtained a trove of documents charting real-estate investing by NYC-DSA cochair Gustavo Gordillo’s parents, who have long paid for their socialist son’s housing.
NY Democratic Socialists Boss Railed Against Landlords. His Rich Parents Rented Out Their Florida Mansion for $18,000 a Month, Bought Him a $1 Million NYC Home.
Gustavo L. Gordillo, the embattled co-chair of New York City's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, has made a name for himself railing against property ownership, landlords, and real estate investors who enjoy robust rates of return. "It's time to take over apartments owned by landlords freeloading off hardworking taxpayers," Gordillo, 38, posted on social media in June.
NY Democratic Socialists Boss Railed Against Landlords. His Rich Parents Rented Out Their Florida Mansion for $18,000 a Month, Bought Him a $1 Million NYC Home.
Gustavo L. Gordillo, the embattled co-chair of New York City's chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, has made a name for himself railing against property ownership, landlords, and real estate investors who enjoy robust rates of return. "It's time to take over apartments owned by landlords freeloading off hardworking taxpayers," Gordillo, 38, posted on social media in June.
Abdul El-Sayed Falsely Claimed He Canceled $700 Million in Medical Debt. It Was Actually $42 Million, and I Have Receipts.
For an investigation published by the Free Beacon, I obtained via public-records requests documentation of how badly El-Sayed’s debt-cancelation program has fallen short of its lofty ambitions. My latest for The Washington Free Beacon Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the progressive Democrat running in a crucial Michigan Senate race, inflated by 17-fold the amount of local residents’ medical debt he had canceled while head of the Wayne County health department.
Abdul El-Sayed Falsely Claims He ‘Erased’ $700 Million in Medical Debt: The Truth Is Far More Modest Original
"$700 MILLION MEDICAL DEBT ERASED." So boasted the first major TV ad for Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign in Michigan—in a bright-yellow, all-caps caption blanketing the screen, as the voice-over said that El-Sayed "got rid of millions of dollars of medical debt." This claim referred to an initiative El-Sayed launched during his roughly two-year tenure as head of the Wayne County health department, which serves the Detroit suburbs.
Major New York Hospital Settles With DoJ Over Youth Gender Clinic, Keeps It Shuttered
Mt. Sinai is a sprawling hospital system in New York City Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today.
Cambridge Said Jason Arday Was an ‘Aberration.’ So Why Was This Shaky PhD Thesis He Approved Sealed Until 2031?
Damilola Folayan (left) and Jason Arday (right) Reality’s Last Stand is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber or making a one-time or recurring donation to show your support. Benjamin Ryan is an independent journalist, specializing in science and health care coverage. He is a contributor for The New York Times, The Guardian, NBC News, The Free Press, and The New York Sun.
Cambridge Said Jason Arday Was an ‘Aberration.’ So Why Was This Shaky PhD Thesis He Approved Sealed Until 2031?
Damilola Folayan, left, who received her PhD from Cambridge in 2025. Jason Arday, right, sat on her PhD thesis review panel. The thesis was put under a one-year embargo in July 2025. After about a two-week lapse, the embargo was renewed for five years—a renewal put in place directly after the scandal broke about Dr. Arday’s alleged academic misconduct. Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today.
The AAP Wanted Its Name Off a Washington Sex-Segregated Sports Ballot Argument. The Answer Was No.
Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today. The American Academy of Pediatrics has sought to distance itself from a Washington state ballot initiative that would restrict girls’ and women’s school sports to those born female.
‘Frankly, He Has Been Killed’: Angry Scholars From UK’s Top Academics’ Union Blame Jason Arday’s Death on Racist Mob, as ‘Race Realist’ Who Ignited the Firestorm Is Suspended Original
Demonstrators at a mass vigil on Monday in London’s Trafalgar Square for the former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who was found dead on Friday (Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images) As anger grows among the left over the apparent suicide last week of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, an influential band of activists within Great Britain’s largest academics’ union is moving to fuel that raw sentiment into action.
Scoop: The Unredacted Email That Shows Exactly Who Knew Why WPATH Caved to Dr. Rachel Levine On Trans-Care Age Limits
The opening of an email from WPATH’s president to Biden health official Dr. Rachel Levine that I obtained and that previously was only publicly available in a version with all the names redacted.
Fallen Cambridge Star Jason Arday's 'True Life' Memoir Appears To Poach Life Events From His Favorite Soap Operas, 'Spartacus,' and 'Forrest Gump'
Original Article Posted By: Beardo, 8/14/2026 2:56:49 PM Jason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge last week amid accusations of academic plagiarism and serial fabulism, still became a published Simon & Schuster author this week after the publishing giant released his memoir. The book was meant to inspire readers-and stir profit-through Arday's remarkable life story.
Fallen Cambridge Star Jason Arday’s ‘True Life’ Memoir Appears To Poach Life Events From His Favorite Soap Operas, ‘Spartacus,’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ Original
Jason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge last week amid accusations of academic plagiarism and serial fabulism, still became a published Simon & Schuster author this week after the publishing giant released his memoir. The book was meant to inspire readers—and stir profit—through Arday's remarkable life story.
Jason Arday Apparently Plagiarized His Memoir Title and Origin Story From the TV Show 'Spartacus'
The 2010 TV show Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and Jason Arday Just when you thought it was safe to go back to watching schlocky fantasy shows from the 2010s comes more news about Jason Arday’s alleged plagiarism: this time from pop culture.
John McWhorter On Jason Arday: Cambridge "Chose a Black Person With No Concern for Excellence."
Columbia linguist John McWhorter (left) and former Cambridge sociology of education professor Jason Arday (right) As over the past week I’ve lived and breathed the imbroglio over Cambridge’s hiring of Jason Arday, who resigned in disgrace on Wednesday amid an avalanche of credible accusations of plagiarism, academic fraud and serial fabulism, the one person whose thoughts on the matter I’ve wanted to hear more than anyone is John McWhorter.
EXCLUSIVE: Simon & Schuster Selectively Edited Disgraced Scholar Jason Arday’s Memoir To Soften Now-Toxic Reputation Original
Jason Arday, who resigned from his prestigious professorship at Cambridge on Wednesday after the university launched an investigation into his academic integrity, is now facing more scrutiny as Simon & Schuster is set to publish his memoir in the United States next week.
Jason Arday Resigns From Cambridge: Star Professor Had Made Shocking Claims About Pigs’ Heads, Stalker and Racist Death Threats, With No Evidence To Support Them
Celebrity Cambridge professor Jason Arday, who resigned suddenly on Wednesday after the university announced it had opened an investigation into his academic credentials, has a history of claiming he was the victim of violent, criminal threats that are not supported by law enforcement or any other available records, the Washington Free Beacon has found.
Cambridge Prof. Jason Arday, in Unearthed 2025 Speech, Makes Shocking Claims About Racist Death Threats and Pigs’ Heads
Cambridge Prof. Jason Arday has been accused of sweeping plagiarism and rampant fabulism. He, meanwhile, has complained of being subjected to a terror campaign to drive him from his job. Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today.
Star Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Lied for Years About Raising Millions for Charity: Simon & Schuster Scrubbed Financial Details From His New Memoir and Falsehoods From His Bio Original
The celebrity Cambridge education professor Jason Arday—whose rags-to-riches memoir from Simon & Schuster lands August 11—has repeatedly lied about his charitable fundraising prowess, according to 16 years of records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Jason Arday Said He’s Not a Liar. The Receipts On His Charity Claims Say: Decide for Yourself.
Jason Arday, a professor of sociology at Cambridge who has been accused of plagiarism and fabulism. (Source: https://www.aol.com/articles/academia-much-bigger-problem-plagiarism-124250000.html) Cambridge sociology professor Jason Arday, who has been accused of considerable plagiarism in his academic work, gave an interview to The Times at the end of a scandal-plagued week in which swirling questions about his professional integrity have turned him into the next Stephen Glass.
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NIH Funding For Top U.S. Pediatric Gender Medicine Study Has Apparently Ended
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, principal investigator of the NIH-funded Trans Youth Care Study, with a young patient. (Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/demand-clinicians-transgender-youth) Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today, which will gain you access to all the WPATH conference videos I have published and will publish going forward.
“She just sent me onto a pipeline of destruction.” Former Patients of Canadian Pediatrics Society's New President Speak Out
I spoke with families who are deeply unhappy with the gender-related care they received from Canadian pediatrician Dr. Natasha Johnson. (Source: https://www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca/share/trans-health-care/) Canadian pediatrician Dr. Natasha Johnson’s appointment as the new president of the Canadian Pediatric Society has alarmed three families I spoke with for a new investigation I’ve published today in The New York Sun. I hope you will take the time to read it.
Britain’s Study of Puberty Blockers Will Mostly Be a Pointless Waste
Reality’s Last Stand is a reader-supported publication. Please consider becoming a paying subscriber or making a one-time or recurring donation to show your support. I am an independent journalist, specializing in science and health care coverage. I contribute to The New York Times, The Guardian, NBC News, The Free Press and The New York Sun. I have also written for the Washington Post, The Atlantic and The Nation, among many others. Follow me on X: @benryanwriter.
Britain’s Study of Puberty Blockers Will Mostly Be a Pointless Waste
King’s College London on Friday announced that, after a period of reflection and regrouping amid outcry from all sides, the leaders of the much-debated, much-ballyhooed National Health Service clinical trial of puberty blockers for gender-distressed youths would continue largely as planned. The study’s design has received just a few tweaks, most notably the addition of new minimum ages for participants: 11 years old for natal girls and age 12 for natal boys.
How Gender Medicine Set Itself Up for Disaster
At a closed-door meeting in 2021, ACLU attorney Chase Strangio declared, “If we take away these health care options, kids are going to die.” The scrappy litigator uttered this dire proclamation in an address at the biennial conference of USPATH, the US branch of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH. Strangio has played a pivotal role in the transgender movement’s general refusal to offer concessions on the chief principles animating its cause.
The Surgeon Who Trusts the System: Inside the Detransitioner-Lawsuit Testimony of Penn’s Dr. Joseph Serletti
This is the last of my series of articles going into depth about the historic detransitioner lawsuit that reached a $2 million verdict in White Plains, New York, at the end of January and that I covered for The Free Press. Given I was the only reporter to attend the entire trial, and given the records, including the transcripts, are sealed, my notes are the only way for the public to learn about the finer details of this important case.
Surgeon General Nominee Casey Means' Reasons For Quitting Her Residency Have Stayed Consistent Since She Left OHSU, Internal Emails Show
I obtained emails through a public records request indicating that Dr. Means told her residency she was dropping out due to disenchantment with surgery and a preference for prevention-based medicine. Casey Means at her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday Casey Means, the wellness influencer and President Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General, has remained consistent in the reasons she has expressed for dropping out of her surgical residency since she made the decision to do so in 2018.
Medicaid Spent $118 Million On Gender-Transition Drugs and Surgeries For Minors From 2019 to 2023, CBO Finds
A new study found somewhat lower use of cross-sex hormones among teens on Medicaid than in a previous study about privately insured youth but a higher rate of surgery than a previous Harvard study. Source: Grok Medicaid spent over $100 million dollars on gender-transition treatments for minors from 2019 to 2023, according to a new analysis conducted by the Congressional Budget Office.
Unheard Testimony From WPATH's President Elect In the Historic Detransitioner Lawsuit: "A reasonable surgeon would have put on the brakes."
Dr. Loren Schecter, president elect of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, who testified as an expert witness for the plaintiff in the Fox Varian detransitioner civil trial. (Source: YouTube) Last month, a jury in White Plains, New York awarded Fox Varian, 22, $2 million after she sued her psychologist and plastic surgeon for malpractice over the gender-transition mastectomy she received at age 16 and came to bitterly regret.
WPATH's Trans-Care Bible "Is Not Considered the Standard of Care"-Unheard Testimony From the $2M Detransitioner Lawsuit
Pre-eminent plastic surgeons Dr. Joseph Serletti (left) and Dr. Loren Schechter testified as opposing expert witnesses in the Varian v. Einhorn detransitioner lawsuit in White Plains, N.Y., last month. As you may know, I was the only reporter to attend the entirety of the recent three-week civil trial in White Plains, N.Y., that concluded with a detransitioner receiving a $2 million jury award.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons shook the transgender care field last week when it issued a nine-page policy statement recommending its members not conduct gender-transition surgeries on patients under age 19. Both the timing of the statement’s release and its contents came as a complete surprise, however, to an ASPS task force that the organization convened in May to examine the very issue of gender surgeries on youth.
Britain’s Good Law Project Again Claims the NHS Caused a Surge of Trans-Youth Suicides-Without Proving Its Case
Good Law Project’s Feb. 7, 2026 press release Once again, Britain’s Good Law Project (GLP) has made a damning accusation connecting National Health Service (NHS) England’s imposition of what it claims was a restrictive policy on minors’ access to gender-transition drugs to suicide deaths among trans youth.
Watch My Substack Live with Katie Herzog. Plus: On the Hypocrisy Of Dr. Blair Peters, aka "Queer Surgeon," Griping About the ASPS's Opposition to Pediatric Gender Surgeries
Thanks so much to Katie Herzog of Blocked and Reported for having me on Substack Live today. Their show has been such an inspiration to my reporting and to my general intellectual development and awakening over the past few years. Y’all should subscribe to their podcast if you don’t already.
The Sealed Case Files From the $2 Million Detransitioner Lawsuit, Part III. Plus, An Update On Upcoming Cases.
It’s been a busy week for me, giving interviews left and right about my reporting for The Free Press on the nation’s first detransitioner civil lawsuit to go to trial. Yes, the mainstream media did indeed express interest, and I went on CBS News 24/7 yesterday to discuss the case. But by and large, I’ve been deluged only by conservative and heterodox outlets and podcasts. I said no to InfoWars! I spoke with Scott Jennings’ show this afternoon: And I talked with Megyn Kelly’s show on Monday morning.
The $2M Detransitioner Lawsuit Case File Remains Sealed. Here Are the Sealed Expert Witness Affidavits, Which I Obtained.
The plastic-surgeon expert witness affidavit for the defense, which I post in its entirety below It’s been an explosive week for gender news. First came the $2 million verdict in the first detransitioner malpractice lawsuit ever to go to trial, which I covered for The Free Press. Then, yesterday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons released a position statement to its 11,000 members advising against providing gender-transition surgeries to patients under age 19, which I covered for UnHerd.
Jury Awards $2M In First Detransitioner Lawsuit: Live Discussion Between Meghan Daum and Benjamin Ryan
Independent health and science journalist Benjamin Ryan's Substack tends to focus on pediatric gender medicine in particular. Independent health and science journalist Benjamin Ryan's Substack tends to focus on pediatric gender medicine in particular.
The $2 Million Detransitioner Lawsuit Case File Is Sealed. But I Have Those Records. Here Are Some Of Them.
The much criticized referral letter from psychologist Kenneth Einhorn to plastic surgeon Dr. Simon Chin on behalf of Fox Varian (then known as Rowan Basile) that was at the crux of Varian’s lawsuit against them both. On Friday, a jury in White Plains, NY, made history when it awarded $2 million to Fox Varian, 22, after she sued the psychologist and plastic surgeon who oversaw the gender-transition mastectomy she received at age 16 and then came to regret. I covered the case for The Free Press.
I Report for The Free Press: "A Legal First That Could Change Gender Medicine"
I have a major article out in The Free Press today about the historic $2 million award won on Friday by Fox Varian, the first detransitioner to bring a medical-malpractice lawsuit before a jury. She sued her Westchester, NY, psychologist and plastic surgeon over the gender-transition mastectomy she received at age 16. I was the only reporter to attend the entire three-week trial, which was riveting and at times devastating.
Journalists Should Not Use the Term “Assigned Sex at Birth” When Covering Transgender Issues
What? That’s not sleight of hand at all!!! Classification and construction are largely the same thing or at least presuppose the other. You have to classify what you have constructed and you cannot describe what has been constructed without having chosen classifications. I don’t see where you are getting that I am suggesting any type of arbitrariness to the assignation. That is another assumption you all are imagining. The veracity or intelligibility of the assignation is not what is at issue.
Journalists Should Not Use the Term “Assigned Sex at Birth” When Covering Transgender Issues
In its contribution to the media coverage of Bari Weiss’s young tenure at the helm of CBS News, The Guardian reported this week about a recent dust-up among CBS staffers over the proper terms to use when covering transgender issues.
Journalists Should Not Use the Term “Assigned Sex at Birth” When Covering Transgender Issues
In its contribution to the media coverage of Bari Weiss’s young tenure at the helm of CBS News, The Guardian reported this week about a recent dust-up among CBS staffers over the proper terms to use when covering transgender issues.
"There Is a Vast Over-Inflation of What Testosterone Does": a Kinesiologist Casts Doubt on Sex-Based Athletic Differences
On January 13, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a landmark case about laws in Idaho and West Virginia restricting access to youth sports according to biological sex. (Here is my defense of the use of the term “biological sex” for anyone who does not care for it.) I read a new book coming out this month, Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports, which argues for what I would characterize as a radical inclusiveness for transgender athletes.
Hospitals Giving Gender Treatments to Kids Would Lose Federal Funding Under New HHS Rule
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has called pediatric gender-transition interventions “malpractice.” (P Photo/Darryl Webb) The Trump administration on Thursday escalated its whole-of-government assault on the controversial field of pediatric gender medicine, announcing pending federal regulation that would bar hospitals from receiving Medicaid or Medicare funding if they provide gender-transition treatments or surgeries to minors.
Newsweek Pushes ‘Elite Misinformation’ About Pediatric Gender Medicine
There has lately been a lot of justified handwringing about elite college students who either can’t or won’t do the reading before class. Such shirking of collegiate responsibility is a travesty; but at least those students can blame their behavior on the heedlessness of youth.
Suicidality Dropped After Youths Started Cross-Sex Hormones Finds Study That Critics Call Weak
A new study of medical-chart data from a Midwestern gender clinic found that adolescents and young adults with gender dysphoria saw a “medium-size effect” improvement in their suicidality after starting cross-sex hormones. As is common with studies in pediatric gender medicine, critics have called the study weak and accused the authors of overstating its findings and baselessly suggesting that the treatment definitively caused the positive outcome.
UK to Launch Long-Awaited Puberty Blocker Trial
Kings College London announced on Friday the launch of a long-awaited clinical trial of puberty blockers to treat youth diagnosed with gender incongruence. The trial will randomize 226 youth under age 16 to either receive puberty blockers immediately or receive them on a one-year delay. The youth need to be under age 16, have had gender incongruence for at least two years, and have stable enough mental health to be able to assent to participating in the trials.
UK to Launch Long-Awaited Puberty Blocker Trial
Kings College London announced on Friday the launch of a long-awaited clinical trial of puberty blockers to treat youth diagnosed with gender incongruence. The trial will randomize 226 youth under age 16 to either receive puberty blockers immediately or receive them on a one-year delay. The youth need to be under age 16, have had gender incongruence for at least two years, and have stable enough mental health to be able to assent to participating in the trials.
Unmasked At Last: The 9 Authors of the Trump Administration Report On Pediatric Gender Medicine. So Who Are They?
The unmasked nine authors of the Trump administration’s critical report about pediatric gender medicine. From left to right: Top row: Dr. Farr Curlin, Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe, Dr. Kathleen McDeavitt; Middle row: Yuan (Ray) Zhang, Moti Gorin, Leor Sapir; Bottom row: Evgenia (Zhenya) Abbruzzese, Alex Byrne, Dr. Michael Laidlaw Substacker and transgender activist has a busy day ahead of her.
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