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A white woman spent years posing online as a Native American scientist and professor, and was caught after claiming the woman contracted coronavirus and died
yahoo.com ^ | August 5, 2020 | Connor Perrett

Posted on 08/05/2020 2:20:38 PM PDT by grundle

A woman spent years posing as a bisexual Native American scientist and university professor, claiming in recent months to be suffering persistent, months-long symptoms of COVID-19 until finally announcing that the fictitious persona she created had died from the disease.

The woman, BethAnn McLaughlin, a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University, operated the Twitter account with the handle @Sciencing_Bi. She claimed to have contracted the coronavirus in April, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation, and said she suffered persistent symptoms that included a "loss of language fluency."

On Tuesday, BethAnn McLaughlin confirmed in a statement to The New York Times that she had been responsible for the Twitter account.

"I take full responsibility for my involvement in creating the @Sciencing_Bi Twitter account," she said in a statement to the New York Times, sent through a lawyer. "My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt."

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bethannmclaughlin; hatecrimehoax; warren
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1 posted on 08/05/2020 2:20:38 PM PDT by grundle
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that . . . .


2 posted on 08/05/2020 2:21:23 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: grundle

Liz Warren croaked?


3 posted on 08/05/2020 2:23:11 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
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To: kaehurowing
"... My actions are inexcusable. I apologize without reservation to all the people I hurt..."

I think she somehow just offended someone again. Threatening to take their tribal lands?

4 posted on 08/05/2020 2:23:53 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: grundle

Cancel her!


5 posted on 08/05/2020 2:24:00 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: grundle

how much did this fake person make?

who did “she/he/it” steal from at the University?

others online, too?

how many THOUSANDS more do this?


6 posted on 08/05/2020 2:24:59 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: kaehurowing; BobL
[A woman spent years posing as a bisexual Native American scientist and university professor]

I was gonna ask...

Is this thread about Elizabeth Warren?


7 posted on 08/05/2020 2:27:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: grundle

btt


8 posted on 08/05/2020 2:27:48 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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9 posted on 08/05/2020 2:29:01 PM PDT by nwrep
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Apologize without reservation. So, she will not contest any litigation leveled against her??

I mean, that is what she is signaling.

10 posted on 08/05/2020 2:29:26 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: grundle

ain’t life a bitch?


11 posted on 08/05/2020 2:30:01 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: nwrep

Heap big Injun’.


12 posted on 08/05/2020 2:30:02 PM PDT by fhayek
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What a pathetic integrity-free loser. Hopefully her complete failure in life will continue. What a pathetic failure.


13 posted on 08/05/2020 2:37:23 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: nwrep

Ah, yeah. I ran across her on 4chan the other day. Seems they outed her.


14 posted on 08/05/2020 2:37:25 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: grundle

Why are they always fat white mentally ill people? Possibly even a drunk


15 posted on 08/05/2020 2:37:44 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: grundle

Hey, if boys can call themselves girls why not be a fake person.


16 posted on 08/05/2020 2:38:07 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: fhayek

Found this - still in present tense, though

[McLaughlin currently works at MeTooSTEM, the non-profit organisation that she founded in order to advise scientists who are victims of sexual harassment[5]. McLaughlin’s management style has been questioned by several members of MeTooStem in leadership positions after “bullying” allegations[6][7]. ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BethAnn_McLaughlin


17 posted on 08/05/2020 2:39:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: grundle
some text
18 posted on 08/05/2020 2:40:02 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: grundle

So this is about an fictitious death of a fictitious person on a fictitious twitter account?

Do I have that right?


19 posted on 08/05/2020 2:41:09 PM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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[ and said she suffered persistent symptoms that included a “loss of language fluency.” ]

That’s a new one. No wonder Obama couldn’t speak Austrian.


20 posted on 08/05/2020 2:41:20 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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