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Youngest Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead
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apnews.com
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petethomas
5 hours ago
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r721 2 hours ago
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Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303774
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303384
averysmallbird 3 hours ago
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For whatever he did, he never needed to be the product of an international pile-on. Even having known and read about this feels like being a party to a tragedy.
bragh 2 hours ago
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He did claim harassment with the police against the journalist who was initally investigating him:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rd9y99grzo
Now consider that this was in UK.
NewJazz 2 hours ago
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Uh, what about it being in the uk? I guess I've heard the press can be aggressive, but not sure if that's what you meant.
ThrowawayTestr 26 minutes ago
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A scam artist was found out and couldn't handle the truth. I do not feel bad for him.
expedition32 4 hours ago
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qwerpy 3 hours ago
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Is this the kind of comment you’re proud to write?
b0rtb0rt 3 hours ago
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ahmed_1000 2 hours ago
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Obsession over race - from the people who hired him to virtue signal, to a headline announcing his death
1 hours ago
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303384