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 ...
Not that there’s anything wrong with that . . . .
Liz Warren croaked?
I think she somehow just offended someone again. Threatening to take their tribal lands?
Cancel her!
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?
btt
I mean, that is what she is signaling.
ain’t life a bitch?
Heap big Injun’.
What a pathetic integrity-free loser. Hopefully her complete failure in life will continue. What a pathetic failure.
Ah, yeah. I ran across her on 4chan the other day. Seems they outed her.
Why are they always fat white mentally ill people? Possibly even a drunk
Hey, if boys can call themselves girls why not be a fake person.
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
So this is about an fictitious death of a fictitious person on a fictitious twitter account?
Do I have that right?
[ 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.
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