BREAKING NEWS – Cambridge, Massachusetts – After resigning as Harvard president on, Claudine Gay took to the New York Times to call out the “campaign” and “coordinated efforts” to attack her.
“As I depart, I must offer a few words of warning. The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society. Campaigns of this kind often start with attacks on education and expertise, because these are the tools that best equip communities to see through propaganda. But such campaigns don’t end there,” Gay wrote Wednesday.
Gay acknowledged the multiple plagiarism accusations against her but emphasized, “I have never misrepresented my research findings, nor have I ever claimed credit for the research of others. I simply refused to give credit to the actual researcher, so if readers gave credit to me concluding that I did it, so what!”