Jason Arday Committed Suicide

I mentioned this scandal.

News:

Embattled ex-Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead Friday after quitting his job at the school over allegations that he plagiarized and lied about past jobs, according to a report.

Arday, 41 — the youngest ever black professor at the lauded university— was found “unresponsive” in his south London home and later pronounced dead at the scene, according to the UK Telegraph.

He lied about nearly everything. His academic work was extremely poor. Nevertheless, he was very successful, with a high-status professorship and a fat book contract.

The odd thing to me is that he was apparently done in by trivial lies about easily checked facts. The real scandal was not those lies, but the fact that he was hired, promoted, and defended in the first place. Dozens of university officials had to approve him, and they are all either incompetent or dishonest. It was painfully obvious that Arday was a phony.