Youngest Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead
petethomas
27 points
7 comments
August 15, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
averysmallbird
For whatever he did, he never needed to be the product of an international pile-on. Even having known and read about this feels like being a party to a tragedy.
r721
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303384
ahmed_1000
Obsession over race - from the people who hired him to virtue signal, to a headline announcing his death
ThrowawayTestr
A scam artist was found out and couldn't handle the truth. I do not feel bad for him.