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Harvard's President, Claudine Gay had to resign for stealing other peoples work. Is it, as it seems to be, endemic in the the D.E.I. culture? Just steal others words, often verbatim, claim them as your own, and call it original thought.
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Harvard's President, Claudine Gay had to resign for stealing other peoples work. Is it, as it seems to be, endemic in the the D.E.I. culture? Just steal others words, often verbatim, claim them as your own, and call it original thought.
Star Academic Behind Million-Dollar Antiracism Center Races For Exit As Plagiarism Allegations Pile Up |
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THIS IS A LONG STORY, the excerpt below will give you the gist of the story, but see the whole story for ALL the damning evidence.
Star Academic Behind Million-Dollar Antiracism Center Races For Exit As Plagiarism Allegations Pile Up
Emily Kopp
April 16, 2025 12:21 PM ET
A star academic behind an influential but unsound study arguing that black infants die more often with white doctors has for years been privately beleaguered by plagiarism charges from her own subordinates and will soon depart her university, leaving the multimillion-dollar antiracism center she founded in jeopardy.
University of Minnesota Prof. Rachel Hardeman’s rise to academic superstardom in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis included major media coverage of her research on racial bias and maternal and infant mortality, a tenured position, and recognition as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people.
Now, two former employees allege that she plagiarized the research proposal that helped rocket her into a national figure.
Hardeman secured a landmark National Institutes of Health grant in 2021 — the sole NIH proposal for which she is the primary author — with a hypothesis and methodologies she copied from her mentee’s dissertation proposal, they allege.
The former mentee alleges Hardeman plagiarized the grant proposal with near identical wording, equations, graphics and even formatting, and that the university scuttled the misconduct claims to protect its star. A second employee, a coauthor of two papers underwritten by the NIH grant, alleges that when employees ran the center’s grant proposals through a plagiarism checker they “lit up like a Christmas tree.”
A third researcher who worked on the NIH project said on LinkedIn that she could corroborate the claims, sharing that Hardeman struggled to implement the proposal she said she had authored.
Hardeman will leave the university on May 14, at which point the antiracism center she founded, the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE), may shutter, according to an email sent to staff Monday and obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The email does not address the plagiarism accusations.
“Rachel Hardeman, Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity and Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity will conclude her faculty appointment and center leadership at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, effective May 14, 2025,” the email reads.
The now completed $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development was announced by the university in April 2021. Two months earlier, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota had donated $5 million in seed money to create Hardeman’s center. The center now faces an uncertain future.
“In light of Dr. Hardeman’s departure, School of Public Health Dean Melinda Pettigrew, in consultation with other key stakeholders, will make a determination regarding CARHE in the near future,” the email states.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota did not respond to a request for comment.
A high-impact study coauthored by Hardeman finding black newborns die more frequently with white physicians due to the doctors’ “spontaneous bias” generated enormous media coverage and social media chatter, Altmetric shows. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson prominently cited it as evidence for the benefits of affirmative action in her dissent in the 2023 Supreme Court ruling Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
But the study’s findings proved irreproducible in a 2024 replication study. Internal communications between Hardeman and her coauthors obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demonstrated a key data point had been buried in the paper’s annex because it “undermined the narrative,” the DCNF reported in March.
Hardeman does not have a medical degree, her CV shows.
Washington University in St. Louis Senior Scientist Brigette Davis said in a LinkedIn post on April 10 that Hardeman copied her dissertation proposal when Davis was early in her career and seeking guidance from the famous academic. Davis was later recruited to work for Hardeman’s Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity from November 2022 to March 2024.
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The University of Minnesota and the School of Public Health would not comment beyond the internal email. Hardeman and her center did not respond to repeated requests for comment. The Office of Research Integrity did not respond to a request for comment.
‘I Was Being Emotionally Manipulated’
Davis initially viewed Hardeman as someone willing to help her “navigate the hellscape that academia can be for Black women,” she wrote. Davis shared a dissertation prospectus with her informal mentor for feedback in November 2019. . . .
The central premise of Davis’s dissertation was a hypothesized link between infant mortality and police brutality: Did the August 2014 shooting of Mike Brown by St. Louis police have ambient effects on the survival black newborns in the city?
Davis said that Hardeman “plagiarized verbatim” the premise of her dissertation in January 2020 while tweaking it to suit her Minneapolis focus. Hardeman simply retrofitted the same research question to focus on the August 2016 death of Philando Castile, she said.
“When I say ‘verbatim’ I mean, she performed a find+replace in my document, and replaced all instances of ‘Mike Brown’ with ‘Philando Castile,’ and all instances of ‘St. Louis, Missouri’ with ‘Minneapolis, Minnesota,’ and submitted this to the NIH as if it were her own,” Davis said.
Side-by-side comparisons of two documents — documents that Davis claims are Hardeman’s research proposal to the NIH and her own earlier dissertation prospectus — indicate that their central hypotheses were nearly identical.
