An world who accused the precocious Cambridge prof Jason Arday of plagiarism has been suspended from his station astatine a Belgian university.
Nathan Cofnas, a self-defined "race realist", was among those to question Arday's enactment and achievements - prompting a weeks-long plagiarism enactment anterior to his decease connected 14 August.
Cofnas said helium was nether probe by Ghent University "for discriminating against Arday".
The assemblage said a unit subordinate had been notified of a "preliminary disciplinary investigation" and suspended arsenic a precaution.
In a connection regarding Arday's death, its rector Petra De Sutter and vice-rector Herwig Reynaert said they took "recent nationalist statements made by a postdoctoral researcher astatine Ghent University regarding this substance precise seriously", and had taken "appropriate action".
They said the assemblage stood for "respect for quality dignity and opposes discrimination, hatred and racism".
"We connect large value to world state and to unfastened world debate, adjacent erstwhile views are controversial. However, that state is not unlimited.
"It goes manus successful manus with work and whitethorn beryllium restricted successful bid to support the rights of others."
They said Arday's decease should "prompt reflection" and that lessons should beryllium learned "regarding the mode we dainty 1 different some wrong and extracurricular the world world, peculiarly erstwhile radical go the taxable of nationalist controversy".
Cofnas works arsenic a postdoctoral researcher astatine the university's section of doctrine and motivation sciences, according to his website.
His relation astatine a Cambridge assemblage was terminated successful 2024 aft backlash to his presumption that, nether a existent meritocracy, achromatic radical would "disappear from astir each high-profile positions extracurricular of sports and entertainment".
Cofnas claimed to person enactment Arday's enactment done plagiarism detection bundle which recovered that "many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the archetypal source".
He besides noted that a retired prof had antecedently raised concerns astir Arday's consequent world articles, which led to 2 journals issuing correction notes.
Questions were besides asked astir Arday's claims that helium ran 30 marathons successful 35 days, and 300 miles successful 3 days for charity, which Arday said had raised much than £5m for charity, arsenic good arsenic moving 600 miles connected a treadmill successful six days.
Arday - who became Cambridge's youngest achromatic prof successful 2023 - was recovered dormant successful Battersea, southbound London, having resigned arsenic a prof of sociology of acquisition the week prior.
The 41-year-old had faced weeks of media sum implicit plagiarism allegations and questions astir his achievements. He denied the claims.
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