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Claudine Gay Update -- Now It's Allegations Of Data Falsification
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 24 Dec, 2023 | Francis Menton

Posted on 12/26/2023 4:35:58 AM PST by MtnClimber

It was less than three weeks ago, December 5, when the name of Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, suddenly burst into the news. That was the day that she, along with the Presidents of Penn and MIT, testified before Congress — and could not give a clear answer as to whether it was against the policy at their schools to call for the genocide of Jews. All three women attempted to use the occasion to paint themselves as defenders of free speech, particularly important in such extreme cases.

Manhattan Contrarian readers already knew that Ms. Gay was the opposite of a defender of free speech. In a post on December 16, 2022 with the title “Goodnight, Poor Harvard!” — written on the occasion of the announcement that Ms. Gay would become the next President of Harvard — I reviewed her record on the subject. My conclusion, based on multiple examples mostly from the work of independent journalist Christopher Brunet, was that Ms. Gay was “the enforcer-in-chief of wokist orthodoxy at Harvard.

In the few short weeks since December 5, the news as to Ms. Gay has gotten worse and worse, seemingly by the day. First, some big donors ramped up threats to pull their funding. Then came a handful of allegations of plagiarism found in a few among Ms. Gay’s small number of academic papers. On December 12 the New York Times reported that the Harvard Corporation had appointed a special committee to investigate the allegations of plagiarism, and that the committee had cleared Ms. Gay. Then it emerged that a source had given the allegations of plagiarism to the New York Post back in October, and the Post had sent them to Harvard for confirmation — only to get in return a threatening letter from the Clare Locke law firm (the same firm that had recovered over $700 million from Fox in the Dominion Voting case) asserting that the accusations of plagiarism were “demonstrably false.” Then (December 19 in the Washington Free Beacon) there emerged a new dossier now with some 40 instances of alleged plagiarism — almost four for each of Ms. Gay’s eleven academic articles — many of the new allegations much more serious than the ones that the special committee had just deemed minor.

So by December 19 the Clare Locke letter and the attempt of the special committee to whitewash Ms. Gay’s plagiarism had blown up in the face of the Harvard Corporation. On December 22 the New York Post ran a big story demonstrating that the special committee had cleared Ms. Gay before investigating her work. Could it get any worse for Ms. Gay?

Yes. Here’s the latest from Christopher Brunet in a post at something called The Dossier yesterday: Claudine Gay has been asked for, but has refused to provide, the data that underlie a 2001 article she published in the American Political Science Review (“The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation”). The 2001 APSR article was a critical piece in Ms. Gay receiving tenure from Stanford. In 2002, two researchers who had looked at the APSR paper — Michael Herron of Dartmouth and Kenneth Schotts of Stanford — thought the result anomalous and sought the underlying data from Gay. Herron and Schotts reported the results of that effort in a working paper they presented at the 2002 conference of the Society for Political Methodology. Brunet has obtained a copy of the Herron/Schotts working paper, and links to it at his piece. Here is the key quote from the Herron/Schotts working paper:

We were, however, unable to scrutinize Gay’s results because she would not release her dataset to us (personal communication with Claudine Gay, 2002).

Consider Gay’s (2001) EI–R analysis of the precinct-level socioeconomic covariates that affect black and white turnout. […] For Gay’s Michigan and Pennsylvania EI–R analyses to be logically consistent, it must be true that knowledge of a precinct’s percent black (Xi) tells us nothing about the precinct’s per capita income (an element of Gay’s Zi). This is untenable in light of contemporary American social realities: if a precinct has a large African-American population, then all things equal this precinct will have a relatively low per capita income. Nonetheless, without assuming that a precinct’s per capita income is not a function of its racial composition, and without making a host of similarly implausible assumptions for the other right hand side variables in her second stage regressions, Gay’s use of EI–R is logically inconsistent.

Yes, it’s technical mumbo-jumbo, but the gist is that the Gay paper’s methodology appears on its face to be “logically inconsistent,” so the authors asked for the underlying data, and they were refused. As far as I am concerned, failure by a researcher to share the underlying data as to published work is prima facie evidence that the data have been falsified. The ability to disprove that inference is completely in the hands of the researcher, here Ms. Gay, and there is no reason to refuse disclosure other than known problems in the data. Readers here know that the phenomenon of refusal to disclose underlying data is endemic in narrative-supporting politicized “science,” most famously in the Hockey Stick graph of Mann, et al., that is the primary basis of the global warming scare.

Is there any other reason to think that something suspicious is going on here? Well, the Herron/Schotts paper from which the above quote comes appears nowhere on the internet (except as Brunet has now posted it), and there is evidence to suggest that the paper was intentionally disappeared. Brunet:

The program for every PolMeth conference from 1984-2021 is available for download on the PolMeth website, except for 2002, indicating the missing year of 2002 was deliberately removed from this span, seemingly to protect Gay. This is especially true because there was no internet in e.g. 1984, so there is clearly a repository of old programs somewhere that was uploaded to the website at one point, from which 2002 is conspicuously missing. Perhaps 2002 was the sole year lost in the shuffle during this span.

Was the reason for disappearance of the Herron/Schotts paper to protect Gay, as Brunet hypothesizes? You be the judge. Anyway, it is completely in Ms. Gay’s hands to disprove any inference of data manipulation by disclosing her data. I’m somehow guessing that that’s not going to happen.

As they used to say about Donald Trump, “the walls are closing in” on Claudine Gay.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: academia; affirmativeaction; claudinegay; communism; dei; false; freespeech; harvard; ivyleague
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To: MtnClimber

Data falsification probably happens a lot more than people
suspect.


21 posted on 12/26/2023 5:37:52 AM PST by Fido969
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To: Ann Archy

You are correct! She is a fourfer: left-wing, black, female, and lesbian. She is a member of the protected classes four times over.

If a conservative white male Christian faced such charges he would at the very least been suspended, banned from teaching, and be told to wait until the guilty verdict was handed down.


22 posted on 12/26/2023 5:38:14 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: MtnClimber

the Ivy League ceased to be an asst to America and Americans decades ago.

Knowledge-access and utilization-requires truth as its foundation.

Ivy’s-and many “higher ed’ institutions today appear to teach obfuscation, camouflaging and propagation of nonsense, if not outright fiction.

To the extent the existence of these institutions is dependent upon Federal funds-is basically a fraud


23 posted on 12/26/2023 5:43:35 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Liz; Red Badger

Good points, well summarized. Thank you.


24 posted on 12/26/2023 5:48:33 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Liz

These are the people who consider themselves our ‘betters’................


25 posted on 12/26/2023 5:52:28 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jim Noble

She should resign just for being ugly, in the here and now...............


26 posted on 12/26/2023 5:53:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MtnClimber

Just one look at her and you know she is an inept affirmative action phony. Harvard will get rid of her when this all dies down. Gay has less than 12 months before Harvard brooms this buffoon.

Though I admit I never would have figured that she is so compromised in plagiarism and data fakery. Harvard gets paid a few hundred million annually by the Feds for scientific research. Gay makes the serious people at Harvard look like possible frauds, too.


27 posted on 12/26/2023 5:58:54 AM PST by dennisw (Be positive. Evey day is another day.)
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To: BobL

That would be Lindsey Graham.


28 posted on 12/26/2023 6:00:27 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

T/y


29 posted on 12/26/2023 6:09:21 AM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: Red Badger

They better think again.


30 posted on 12/26/2023 6:09:58 AM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s OK when Michael Mann does it.


31 posted on 12/26/2023 6:14:39 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Liz

They have been taught, no INDOCTRINATED, to believe that they are the ‘Best and Brightest’ among us.

Anyone else is an uneducated, ignorant savage.........................


32 posted on 12/26/2023 6:15:32 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Ann Archy

She is actually married to a white “colonizer” man.
So much for being down with the struggle.


33 posted on 12/26/2023 6:20:18 AM PST by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS)
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To: MtnClimber

pResident of an American university. What standards? What accountability? E-


34 posted on 12/26/2023 6:20:34 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Time to send Miss Gay home to Haiti.


35 posted on 12/26/2023 6:25:32 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (They've begun dismantling Arlington Cemetery, next comes diggin up white solders and dumpin' 'em.)
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To: MtnClimber

Gay, apparently with the blessing of the Board of Overseers, has turned Harvard into a racist outhouse of indoctrination.


36 posted on 12/26/2023 6:25:49 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: MtnClimber

Deport her back to Haiti


37 posted on 12/26/2023 6:33:40 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt


38 posted on 12/26/2023 6:42:01 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: MtnClimber

Plagiarism by black people is just a part of academic reparations.


39 posted on 12/26/2023 6:50:23 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Truth shall set you free, that is if you can get it.


40 posted on 12/26/2023 7:05:50 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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