Prof Jason Arday

[Spindle]

Cambridge University has a lot to answer for but even more guilty is Sir John Moore University who granted him his PHD. It was their original failure that started this.

My nephew who is autistic is currently doing his PHD in a branch of science. A PHD has to be original work, if this guy is now claiming his plagiarism is due to his neurodiversity then that is completely disrespectful to the many people who completed their PHD's despite their challenges.

I have noticed that there is one area that the media has chosen (so far) not to investigate and that is his claims about neurodiversity. They have ridiculed his claim that he was not literate until 18 (how could he pass his O and A levels). However how do we know if he is exaggerating his condition or if he even has any condition. Even if what he says is true that does not excuse his lies.

All in all he has done no favours to black people and people who have neurodiverse health issues.

Liverpool John Moore is a Polytechnic, it's not in the Russell Group, Liverpool University is. It is the same as Solent University, UWE, London Met, Aston University, Portsmouth University, De Montfort University and many others in the second tier.

It means that the competition to get in is second tier, and the difficulty in the subject and student competition is considerably lower.

That should be the first warning sign. Oxbridge is entirely different, students there have 4 or 5 A* grades to compete to get in. They don't get in on C, E, E like you do at a former Poly

 

[cryrst]

Neurodivergence shouldn’t be for the sake of meritocracy though.
The cream will float to the top.
The big short, the accountant et al. Films yes but in real life it does also happen.
This t*** used his colour as a weapon and everyone fawning around him ticked their box to feel great.
Malcom x would be laughing at this.

 

[Badger11]

Neurodivergence shouldn’t be for the sake of meritocracy though.
The cream will float to the top.
The big short, the accountant et al. Films yes but in real life it does also happen.
This t*** used his colour as a weapon and everyone fawning around him ticked their box to feel great.
Malcom x would be laughing at this.

Exactly.

This is what happen when you have chairs for woolly subjects like Critical Race Theory or Feminism. Ultimately they are about opinions rather than facts. We can all have opinions but this is supposed to be academia where you have to back up what you say with facts. Apparently this guy has been interviewed many times on radio and TV and some of the things he has said are not only controversial but also lack any proof and yet he was allowed to get away with it.

If A Physics Professor went on TV and said Einstein was wrong I thing he would be expected to back it up. But Critical Race Theory allows people to tell "their truth" or "my experience as a black person which you cannot possibly understand as you are white" blah blah.