Harvard needs a new motto: Veritas has clearly gone right out the window at America’s most elite college.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital, is retracting six papers and seeking to correct dozens more by four of its top researchers — including the hospital’s CEO, COO, and two program directors.
All four of the implicated scientists have faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School.
So let’s get this clear: Harvard’s just-ousted president is a serial plagiarist.
The new co-chair of its antisemitism task force is a virulent Israel-hater.
And its med-school muckamucks have allegedly been faking their research.
Worse, the faked data was only detected by an amateur outsider on a crusade against academic fraud.
Even now, the institute is conducting an internal review debating the profs’ intent to deceive.
Hmmmm, that sounds familiar!
Exactly like, in fact, Harvard’s lame defense of ousted President Claudine Gay.
Harvard paid a price for its initial defense of Gay; perhaps that’s scared some sense into the people responsible for “research integrity” at Farber.
The rot at Harvard clearly runs much deeper than previously guessed.
Then again, what else can you expect at a college where A’s are 79% of all grades given?
Or where average annual tuition increases are trending massively above inflation?
It’s beyond clear that Harvard and almost all other elite institutions of education are utterly disconnected from their central missions: To educate young Americans and instill in them the intellectual rigor and honesty necessary to participate fully in a democratic society.
Now they indoctrinate them in woke, racist, antisemitic, and anti-American claptrap while teaching them nothing.
The leaders they choose are corrupt or cowardly (or both, like Claudine Gay).
Happily, thanks to outspoken people like Bill Ackman and others, we are beginning to see the first moments of a reckoning.
But there sure is a lot of rot to root out.
