Opinion

Harvard cancer hospital retractions prove academic rot runs bone-deep

Harvard needs a new motto: Veritas has clearly gone right out the window at America’s most elite college. 

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital, is retracting six papers and seeking to correct dozens more by four of its top researchers — includin꧃g the hospital’s ﷺCEO, COO and two program directors. 

All four of the implic🐼ated scientists have faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School. 

So let’s get this clear: Harvard’s just-oust🔥ed president is a seri🍒al plagiarist

The new co-chair of its antisemitism task force is a virulent🌳 Israel-hater.

And its med schꦺool muckamucks have allegedly been faking their research. 

Worse, the faked data were only detected by 🐻an amateur outsider on a crusade against academic fraud. 

Even now, the institute is conducting an interna🍃l review debatiꦜng the profs’ intent to deceive.

Hmmmm, that sounds familiar! 

Exactly, in fact, like Harvard’s lame defense of ousted president Claudine Gay.  

Harvard paid a price for its initial defense of Gay; perhaps that’s scared some sense into the people responsible for “research integrity” at Dana-Farber.&n💮bs♐p;

The rot at Harvard clearly runs ܫmuch d🍃eeper than previously guessed.

Then again, what eꦫlse can you expect at a college where A’s are 79% of all grades given?

Or where average annual tuit♑ion increases are trending massively above inflat✨ion?

It’s beyond clear that Harvard and almost all other elite institutions of education are utterly disconnected from their central missions: to educate young Americans and instill in them the intellectual rigor and honesty necessary♔ to participate fully in a democratic society. 

Now they indoctrinate them in w🦄oke, racist, antisemitic, and anti-A🙈merican claptrap while teaching them nothing. 

The leaders they choose are corrupt or cowardly (or both, like Claudine Gay). 

Happily, thanks🐻 to outspoken people like Bill Ackman and othe🍰rs, we are beginning to see the first moments of a reckoning.

But there sure is a lot of rot to root out.