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Now go after the guys on the search committee that recruited and hired her as faculty in the first place. Penny Pritzker merely plucked the designated berry from the home garden patch when its time was deemed to have come.

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Regarding the last part of that article: one difference between Kornbluth and Gay is that the former is an accomplished scientist with (according to a quick search at google scholar – https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Hna7X28AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ) over a hundred published papers and also an eight year track record at Duke as administrator, that seems to have been generally considered a success.

Kornbluth simply doesn’t have the “diversity hire” CV that Gay has

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I would like to share a block of text, in Bold typeface, from p. 27 of the Sept-Oct 2023 Harvard Mag, which states "Gay's research yielded credible, valid findings. "That's what you want in a scholar. She answered the question in the best way." The article this is taken from, A "Scholar's Scholar" President Claudine Gay, was written by John S. Rosenberg, fulsomely hailing the university's new president, page after page. Pretty nauseating stuff. I have a copy b/c my spouse attended graduate school there many years ago. With all the excitement of the three lady presidents' testimony before the House committee, the backfiring of their words, then Gay's revealed years of copycat academic scribblings, I was afraid we'd thrown out the magazine. Glad we unearthed it as it was in a pile to go to recycling. Cheers to Christopher and the guys with him. Heroes!!

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Keep plugging away - there's a lot more cancer at Harvard.

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Good for you Man!!!!!

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Remember Chris:

Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary. People with the disorder can:

- Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance

- Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration

- Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it

- Exaggerate achievements and talents

- Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate

- Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people

- Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior

- Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations

- Take advantage of others to get what they want

- Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others

- Be envious of others and believe others envy them

- Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious

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FYI, I shared some of your work on Gay in a post today. I had no idea she was as horrible as you revealed, and well-before her advancement to prez! https://pomocon.substack.com/p/the-attempt-to-destroy-roland-fryer

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Well done :)

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FYI I have written a substack post that covers a lot of the work you have dobne and which may extend it slightly

https://ombreolivier.substack.com/p/sympathy-for-claudine-gay?sd=pf

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Ask Big Pharma?! It’s McDonald!s money to them.

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Keep shining the light!!

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I'm a paid subscriber to Unherd. Many great articles day after day. Everyone should subscribe to Unherd and to you....as paid.

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Heady days and nights for this feisty writer. Well done Sir.

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Great article - sharp and well written - well done for turning around in such a short period - and well done and thank you for your part in her resignation and for shining the light away from yourself and onto the need for merit to be the governing standard.

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