zoraniko
8664
557
10
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/
ihatedhipstersbeforeitwascool
landisfloatingrock
I can only think of what little philosphy I would have if $100,000,000,000 were available
SavageDrums
Racism is stupid. All racists are stupid people.
509tigerfish
ParallelParkingInABurka
JFC
domillomew
having read this I don't disagree that he was targeted. I don't disagree that the people who targeted are massive racists and if given a button that would stop thiel and associates hearts I'd be slamming that shit without a second of thought. heres my thought though, nothing here is defending jason arday against the accusations. if well meaning people credibly accuse him of the same shit then it's fine? aren't the accusations accurate? I truly don't follow this enough to know
Margrave9000
You should never believe Nazis.
killergrooves85
These dimwitted racist chuds are always some of the ulgiest inbred looking motherfuckers I’ve ever come across and I grew up in the Southeastern United States.
brainkandle1
#9 holy shit once again it's these absolute FREAKS that think they have some type of genetic superiority over ANYONE when they in fact need to be culled
Margrave9000
Absolutely. Their existence poisons the world. Something must be done for the sake of human civilization.
cptwott
Continuation of the story: Cofnas, hired as a post-doc by the University in Ghent, Belgium, was suspended preventively after public remarks about Arday, at which the US Ambassador in Belgium, Bill White, sharply condemned the suspension, called it a "retaliatory action," and stated that Ghent University does not respect freedom of speech with this decision. In his statement via X, he indicated that the US is reconsidering cooperation with the institution.
US agenda in Europe, people.
ImGoingToGoFallAsleepOnABench
It's almost as if the Republican Party of the United States, which controls nearly the totality of the American federal government, is a white nationalist organization hellbent on creating far-right white ethnostates or something.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Ghent University isn't a USA university, so I'm not sure what that nazi fuckbag thinks he's saying.
Plus, freedom of speech doesn't exist in the USA anyway, blahblahblah.
cptwott
Also, if science gets dictated by politics, we're f*cked.
StellarJay77
So disgusting people using "free speech" again to mean free from consequences from private institutions when they spew their hate filled filth.
StellarJay77
To be crystal clear, your right to free speech is not infringed upon when any group or individual makes you face consequences for the things you say except if that group or individual is from the US government working in an official capacity. If you bitch about any repercussions or punishments you face for saying hateful shit from anyone not the government you can get wrecked because you are not being oppressed.
DirigibleOtter
Good article.
mohammadbinsalmon
peter thiel is one of the most evil, despicable people on the planet. there is nothing bad that could happen to him that isnt justifiable
folkscallmehi
I’m sorry that this man is no longer with us, however it is undeniable that he plagiarized his doctoral thesis and also made a number of easily disproven claims about achievements that never happened. Why would he not be held to a standard of truth like any other person?
Margrave9000
Because he was attacked by Nazis for the crime of being Black and successful.
phovos
He shouldn't have been driven to suicide over plagiarizing and lying.
iusedtodream
Sauce. Now.
buzzingbee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Arday?wprov=sfla1
iusedtodream
Oof. Yeah, there's too much smoke. Claims of attending and graduating universities who say he never attended, either sloppy or lying about who he interviewed, and multiple sources voicing concerns and complaints. He didn't deserve the massive attention, and he sure didn't need to die over it, but his work should probably be discarded.
trinxter
Looking forward to the heads that should roll. Cofnas. Thiel. Anyone working with or for Aporia.
IHateTransphobes
If only.
ionicseraph
Any and every racist shitbag nazi needs their cranium excavated
worldwarzero
thiel freakin sucks
MajorasTerribleFate
Something anyone who thinks our vice president is a joke needs to remember.
DankMustyFarrik
I hope they roll, literally
MioTaalas
So he was murdered?
buzzingbee
Likely suicide. But unknown as of Aug 22.
Wolfshead009
One could make a case that he was socially murdered by the harrasment.
DukeDarkwood
So, he was murdered.
IHateTransphobes
I'm gonna go with "yes."
Relikk
No.
barstr7
People keep mistakenly assuming this a US problem and their country is safe from it. Shitbags like Musk and Thiel are global. They bring their brand of trash with them wherever they go in the form of influence and money. People should be protesting outside Cambridge. Orr needs to go. Cigna's needs to be charged in connection to Arday's death. There needs to be consequences for these people.
yokwe
It feels like a postmodern lynching
Margrave9000
Absolutely. Being successful while Black is a terrible crime in the eyes of White supremacists and Zionists. And the media was willing to cater to their bloodthirsty intentions.
zFUBARz
Feels like? I think it is about as close as you can get to that without actually tying the noose.
wadatahmydamie
I saw someone call it a digital lynching
Ivain
Oh fun, so it WAS a targeted attack. It's so bloody exhausting to try to find what is actually happening between all this deceitful nonsense.
mastikator
Whenever something bad happens to anyone not on the right you can safely assume it was a targeted attack by right wing pedos.
Margrave9000
Exactly.
VileThingz
Right? I was wondering why I would find so many conflicting takes on this story, even on respected news sites.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
From the start, and a bunch of dickless losers on Imgur still took the time to back it because "oh, I read the guy maybe wrote things wrongly sometimes, or had some weird claims!".
Bunch of cockwombles supporting nazis, all because they "had the right target"(paraphrased, but literally their behavior).
Fucking losers. (check my comment history if you wanna go yell at the dicklesses, too, or downvote me for being too harsh to them, I don't care. They deserve it for backing the nazi-side)
DocWiggles
Right? How many people that got a PhD in the past 20 years didn’t give full credit to everyone? Maybe he lied a bit somewhere but it struck me as why him? Of all the people why single him out? Did they do the same kind of investigation on anyone else?
Margrave9000
Yup. Totally blown out of proportion.
They only attacked the Professor because he was Black and successful. They poured infinite resources into dissecting all his works, looking for plagiarism, unbased claims, methodological errors etc. Who does that? Nazis, not scientists.
ionicseraph
I believe it was because he had the audacity to be both black, and educated. The horror /s
Sonicschilidogs
As a biologist, I understand how some may find an uninformed appeal in eugenics, as a person, I understand that it's ultimately classist bullshit or a way to torment people who are less fortunate and happen to be born disabled instead of being caring and above our base natural desires, as humans should be. As a sarcastic asshole, I find it hilarious that the strongest proponents of eugenics are the dumbest, ugliest, and most unfit motherfuckers on the planet and would be 1st to be culled by it.
ImGoingToGoFallAsleepOnABench
That's why they're pushing ideologies that basically amount to "I, an ugly bigoted billionaire CEO, should have absolute dominion over everything, and society should be forcibly gutted and altered to make this happen at any cost, human or otherwise." It's like how "alpha males" invented a social dynamic out of whole cloth and then put themselves at the top of it.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Yeah, every single tech bro nazi (which is almost a tautology at this point) in #9 reminds me of the "Where the fuck is your chin?!" panel from Preacher.
SlickWithaLimerick
No way buddy, these guys clearly represent to PEAK of humanity!
LordLobster
There are some traits that would be cool to give to everyone though: Japan's enzyme to digest seaweed, asian's sweat not smelling, Australian aborigine's 4 cones of color in their eyes. Imagine differentiating between a thousand shades of green? Seems cool.
FaeVikingPrincess
I have that not sweat not smelling. For the most part when I sweat it doesn't smell. Unless I am sweating way more than normal and for a long time and eventually it starts having a smell, or if I'm sick. But it's hard to tell if I actually have the same gene because my ear wax isn't dry and powdery, but it's also not super wet (dry powdered ear wax is a sign of the gene). Also aborigines don't have 4 cones in their eyes. There has been a single study on tetrachromacy and not of the participants
FaeVikingPrincess
were aborigines. What they do have is way more words for shades of green than English speakers and we do know that language plays a huge part in how we see colors. Like I can see more shades of reds and yellow (which is more typical in people who have been confirmed to be terrachromats) but that could be the result of my autism and the fact I well versed in colors and their individual shade and tint names. Am a tetrachromat? Maybe but probably not.
LordLobster
Ah, this was ages ago when i heard of these, so i'm probably wrong with it. For some reason i got it in my head that they were Australian aboriginal women. It must be nice not to smell, i walk down the stairs and you can smell me from a mile away without deodorant/antiperspirant.