patrick.net

https://honestlyre.substack.com/p/do-your-own-research

Once meaning has been unmoored from linguistic signifiers, over time, signified meanings become modular and can be swapped in and out at will by the Party. The short-term results are described above, but it must be stressed that the long-term result of this willful corruption and control of language is far more catastrophic. It is nothing short of the complete intellectual collapse of the Indoctrinated to the point where they are incapable of understanding or discussing even the most basic concepts independently, degenerating to a state of utter reliance on the Party to provide, literally, meaning to their lives.

We have come to the point where any independent though is completely forbidden at Harvard. All must look to the Party to know what "science" says. Which is the very opposite of real science.

From Palo Alto Daily News today:

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-diversifying-diversity

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/whirlwind-reapers-friday-february

But there’s no escaping the fact that, before the pandemic Gay and Magill would have gotten away Scott-free with their arrogant refusals to give straight answers to the questions from dull, non-PhD-having Congresspeople. Instead, they pranced prettily into the propeller blades because credentialed experts have no trust residual to draw on anymore. Nobody likes them. Nobody trusts them. They were wrong about everything.

In other words, everyone is fed up with academic experts who think they are better than everybody else just because the media fawned over their every word during the pandemic. They are now experiencing a rude awakening.

I can offer no more recent evidence of the tsunami of reckoning washing away the edifice of fake expertise than yesterday’s Harvard Crimson story headlined, “Top Harvard Medical School Neuroscientist Accused of Research Misconduct.” It’s bad. A Harvard darling, a so-called expert and top medical science research professor, now stands credibly accused of having falsified (Portlanders: that means made up) his data and having plagiarized other people’s images and illustrations, in over 20 of his papers during a twenty-year period. Over once a year on average. ...

The Crimson story suggests the doctor may have taken a few shortcuts, you know, to make sure his papers popped and so that he would get the “right” answer.

Who knows how much the alleged cheating contributed to Shah’s meteoric career? While other academics toiled away, following the rules, not obtaining the astounding pro-pharma results like the not-so-brilliant Dr. Shah did? Real science is a lot harder.

Shah’s deceit was discovered by data manipulation expert Elisabeth M. Bik. Ms. Bik is every woke academician’s worst nightmare. She is a “real” expert with a talent and a passion for sniffing out academic fakesters. Nowadays Elisabeth uses A.I. and reverse image searching to help, but she’s written guides explaining how you too can help expose fraudulent Harvard doctors. According to Liz’s bio, her exposé work has resulted in 1,069 Retractions, 149 Expressions of Concern, and 1,008 Corrections (as of last November).

If you’re a science type, here’s a link to Elisabeth’s blog post on her investigation of Dr. Shah’s ‘work,’ if you can call it that.

For everybody else, according to the Crimson, Bik found 44 different examples of made-up data in Dr. Shah’s papers between 2001 and 2023. But the “most damning” problems were from Shah’s 2022 paper in Nature Communications (it had 32 other authors, but Shah was the lead author). Bik said Shah’s 2022 paper contained figures and images stolen from seven other papers (written by other scientists) plus some images copied straight off the websites of two scientific product vendors.

For instance, one of Shah’s pinched pictures came from an online catalog by R&D Systems, which makes scientific research antibodies. Shah did not give credit to R&D Systems for using its image in his 2022 article. Instead, Dr. Shah claimed the image was from his own work and — get this — he edited the picture’s labels to show a completely different antibody than the original.

Totally fake. Fake, fake, fake fake fake.

“This is a really unusual sort of thing that I cannot imagine how this happens by accident,” drily noted an independent professor who reviewed Bik’s findings for the Crimson.

Harvard again! What is obvious beyond denial is the bigger movement afoot: the anti-expert movement. Ms. Bik’s helpful labors are but one small special forces unit in the army of discontent that Peter Hotez can see coming through his smudgy, pie-shaped eyeglasses. Mark my words. Their downfall will be so complete that before this is over, they’ll be claiming they were set up.

Patrick says

The Harvard grads would claim they originated that statement.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-plagiarism-problem-multiplies

Patrick says

https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-plagiarism-problem-multiplies

Affirmative action hire.

Patrick says

After the covid debacle, I'm convinced 80% of world would.

https://genesiustimes.com/harvard-hires-stormy-daniels-to-teach-class-on-virtue/

If Stormy Daniels actually looked like that, she wouldn't have to be trying to extort Trump

ElYorsh says

If Stormy Daniels actually looked like that, she wouldn't have to be trying to extort Trump

That woman has a Slavic jaw. Still pretty now, but that jaw will be more pronounced as she gets closer to 30.

Still, if she had stuck to fomenting hatred for ordinary white people instead of including Jews as targets of hatred, she'd still have her job.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/ivy-league-grads-slip-below-county-fair-carnies-on-forbes-list-of-most-desirable-company-hires

https://notthebee.com/article/check-out-the-reactions-to-harvard-med-schools-2024-class-music-video-i-would-remove-my-own-spleen-before-i-allowed-one-of-these-people-to-touch-me

Check out the reactions to Harvard Med School's 2024 class music video: "I would remove my own spleen before I allowed one of these people to touch me"

Guys, I think I'm getting just a little worried about the next generation of doctors.

A music video put together by the Harvard Med School class of 2024 is going viral. I think it's a parody of Cardi B's WAP (DO NOT LOOK THAT UP) and it's even more cringe.

Watch this and I promise you you'll start taking better care of yourself.

Columbia Medical School did their own video.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1787615855280308362

It's terrifying that Medical Students have time to make these videos.

Notice it's all dumb women.

30% of them will only practice for a decade before stopping their practice when they hit their 30s and want a baby.

Imagine that. All those lost slots for highly qualified doctors.

AmericanKulak says

Imagine that. All those lost slots for highly qualified doctors.

You mean all those highly qualified professionals that couldn't see we didn't have a mass die off, and were happy to inject the population with a completely untested serum, that they couldn't recognize didn't work?

The same people that intubated patients, wouldn't put anybody on antivirals, then killed them on Remdesiver while in an induced coma?

Sure, if we only had more professionals like that.

AmericanKulak says

It's terrifying that Medical Students have time to make these videos.

Looks like they are well on their way to the Great Decortication Project specs for the med school.

Rumours are Harvard is strapped for cash if its tax-exempt status and $2.3bn in federal funding isn’t reinstated, as the NYT reports ‘Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges’

https://x.com/TheMichaelEvery/status/1913769868513710251

Judging from the 2F to 1M ratio of the beach thong assay (maybe even more) in Santa Cruz during school sessions in the spring, (along with DEI) a majority of undergrad and postgrads must be women.

My own alma mater department at UCLA went to 70 percent women (in the olden days, 95 percent male).

https://t.me/drue86/65721

https://t.me/drue86/65722

Well, they still coddle and produce bloodline psychopathic murderers, democidists, and genocidists, so there's that. All of that time and money just to learn a pack of endorsed lies and butt up against knowledge guard rails by martinet Kommie academicians stamping out conformity, or just enough technical knowledge to become an agog cog in the machinery. The NASCAR status element is curdled. They are more likely to be regarded as Bertie Wooster nincompoops, and the plebs have been vaccinated into health decaying shells before they even reach middle age.

The Ivies have been tasked to eat and maim their own. The students toil in fear, trepidation and ulcer provoking competition for high SAT scores just to find out classes are filled with DEI idiots and taught by other DEI idiots and administered by other DEI idiots, and your immune system has been forcibly and permanently altered by Student Health vaccine requirements. Of course, these vaccine requirements will be disregarded for the spawns of the elites.

Elite Universities Are Over pdf

Don't know, Yale seems to be the real harbinger of Globalist disaster.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372334/harvard-professor-offers-a-grim-assessment-of-american-democracy-under-trump
Steven Levitsky came in KQED today says, US fell into kind of authoritarian regime after Trump got reelected. He got some fancy number to measure democracy from 99 before Trump to now 83 which is below to countries like Venezuela!

Blue says

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5372334/harvard-professor-offers-a-grim-assessment-of-american-democracy-under-trump
Steven Levitsky came in KQED today says, US fell into kind of authoritarian regime after Trump got reelected. He got some fancy number to measure democracy from 99 before Trump to now 83 which is below to countries like Venezuela!

Yeah, when the Democrats get their freebies and handouts cut, then it must be because of tyranny and authoritarianism. The Democrats are shameless with their Orwellian use of language.

What does Levitsky state about this ?

Harvard Says Budget Cuts Will Force Mass Killing of Laboratory Animals: PETA Statement

https://www.peta.org/media/news-releases/harvard-says-budget-cuts-will-force-mass-killing-of-laboratory-animals-peta-statement/

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Ceffer says

Don't know, Yale seems to be the real harbinger of Globalist disaster.

It's a club, not a college. Most people at Ivy league schools that do anything are attorneys or are political science majors. I somehow got accept to Brown. Was more for a sport, but I was young and dumb for applying. I think I still have the letter somewhere. I'm not living in Rhode Island, just thought it would be cool to apply to some Ivey League schools.

It's all a game. It's all social or about making the sports look good because usually it's 90% nerds that apply. They want people that have a large network of buddies. Education is the same everywhere. They want alumni that they can network and make money off of plain and simple. You're basically a pawn that the alumni extract new people and info from as an undergrad.

That moron Ron Vara is a Harvard PhD.

https://babylonbee.com/news/harvard-awards-honorary-degree-to-man-who-firebombed-governor-shapiros-house

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/peak-hostage-puppy

we’re getting very close to peak hostage puppy. ...

here we see the classic hostage puppy framing. “if you cancel the 3,000 awful and stupid things we are doing you must also cancel these 3 things that we will point to and say ‘well what about this wonderful thing? are you trying to kill the puppy?’” as if this is the whole of the matter.

it’s grandstanding to select a few points to stand for a whole.

the implication is obvious: you want women to die of breast cancer! this work will all be lost! it’s too important! ...

a $53bn endowment throws off $4.9bn per year, literally $563k per hour in returns (using 9.3% return, harvard’s 7 year historical rate). that’s ~$1,600 per second. surely if this work is as critical as claimed, harvard could spare a handful of seconds from its annual return to pay the electrical bill for these freezers full of precious cargo. the fact that this proposition of “having to shut off the fridge” is even on the table at all is pretty ridiculous.

this is an unserious claim made by unserious people. ...

the good doctor himself likely earns $350-500k a year at harvard (i could not find an exact number but he’s a 250-300 base with endowed chair supplement and likely grant funded salary) but surely this would be sufficient to, at the very least, spring for a few grand in freezer fees to keep the work of his life intact.

this whole line of histrionics is a nonsense. all of this is easy to fix, they just do not want to fix it because they’ve become accustomed to getting the goodies for free. ...

harvard spits out huge piles of profit from its endowment. it earns 9.3% a year but only pays out about 5%. the rest is retained and compounds. the endowment made $4.5bn in 2024 but only paid $2.4bn into the operating budget while slurping up $686 million in taxpayer funded grants.

had harvard instead paid out $3.1bn, they could have still increased their endowment size by $1.4bn while covering ALL the grants and taking nothing from taxpayers and still had $14 million left to pay warren buffet to come to campus and teach the administrators some basic accounting. ...

schools like harvard get panoplies of tax breaks and subsidies. but why are we subsidizing something so incredibly rich and, more absurdly, why are we allowing one of the wealthiest educational institutions in the history of history to so baselessly cry poor?

$53bn is quite a large tax-free hedge fund to run. if its purpose is not to fund research like this that is deemed so irreplaceable and important, then what is it for?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/black-boxes-friday-may-23-2025-c

Meanwhile, the culture wars continue apace. Yesterday, President Trump escalated his war with Harvard. The New York Times reported the encouraging story below the headline, “Shock at Harvard After Government Says International Students Must Go.”

Overseas students make up about a third of Harvard’s student body. According to the Times, about 80% of them pay full tuition, a much higher rate than American students. So.

Yesterday, in a curt, 2-page stinker of a letter, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem notified Harvard that its privilege to enroll international students will soon be revoked. Thank you for your attention to this matter. The Times quoted any number of disgruntled foreign students, offended Harvard officials, and loquacious experts, who all wailed about the unfairness of the move since Harvard is no longer an American university but is now a global institution that rightly belongs to the entire world.

The move appears to have come after Harvard sued the Administration on First Amendment grounds, arguing that Trump is unconstitutionally trying to silence their outspoken advocacy for wokeness and DEI, and to force them to agree that universities should be race-neutral. Legally speaking, Trump is on firm ground with this latest revocation of foreign admissions, since he can argue national security — an area firmly within Executive Branch control that courts almost always stay out of.

Almost always. We shall see.

I have zero sympathy for Harvard. It's been nothing but an instrument of oppression for a very long time.

Arguing national security for banning a single university from accepting foreign students sounds frivolous. Same with tariff on one product of one American company.

Donnie needs better advisors.