Hazard Ratio: Benjamin Ryan

This Substack is meant as a video-based companion to the article I published Friday with The Washington Free Beacon about the organizing meeting on Tuesday of the UCU Solidarity Movement, an activist caucus within the British University and College Union, to respond to the crisis over the recent death of the former Cambridge professor Jason Arday. I obtained a recording of the nearly two-hour Zoom meeting of several dozen activist-minded British academics.

Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today. When I was in the 7th grade in 1991, my terrific social studies teacher, Mr. Corkran, taught us what plagiarism was and why it was to be avoided at all costs. And importantly, he taught us strategies—which I still use today—for how to avoid even inadvertently plagiarizing, such as taking notes from another text only in paraphrase.

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.

Hazard Ratio is a reader-supported Substack. Consider backing my work and becoming a paid subscriber today. Jason Arday, who resigned from his professorship at Cambridge last week amid a torrent of accusations of plagiarism and serial fabulism, in 2012 was showered with prizes for his lies about his charity fundraising by the television show Surprise Surprise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Last week I published an essay exploring the catastrophic political state of the transgender agenda, in particular as it pertains to pediatric gender medicine, for Alex Berenson’s Substack, Unreported Truths. Today, Berenson and I had a Substack live to talk about the philosophy undergirding this ethically fraught field of medicine, as well as how it interrelates with other subjects I’ve covered, including HIV, monkeypox and gay sexual health.