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Harvard Prof's Dishonesty research was dishonest
https://patrick.net/post/1384666/2025-05-30-dishonesty-research-was-conducted
No less shocking to me than the Trump administration’s all-out war against Harvard is how little sympathy the university has elicited. Trump’s attack required a minimum of justification relative to the enthusiasm it generated. Jewish donors are happy about the crackdown on Third World, leftist, theater-kid performance art and MAGA understands reflexively that Harvard is a reviled political enemy. ...
In retrospect, the institutions’ anathematization of MAGA was a tremendous miscalculation. Anyone in the institutions openly sympathetic to MAGA was chased out, and many who cooperated with Trump I were vilified and had career prospects harmed. The institutions’ failure to hedge against Trump II left them exposed as a pure enemy without any recourse when he was re-elected as a much more effective executive accompanied by a true, loyal counter-elite. (We’re getting to the point where we have sufficient data to demonstrate unequivocally that the people running the universities, the Penny Pritzker types, aren’t particularly bright and lack the capacity for good judgement.) ...
The stakes need to be clear for what happens when an institution abrogates core institutional missions to ‘do politics.’ ...
In admissions, hiring, and promotions, has Harvard routinely violated the Civil Rights Act and actively engages in discrimination based on race and sex. The United States cannot tolerate having civil rights law that is used as a cudgel in one direction, and then, in the other, is openly and gleefully flouted. It is clear that Harvard believes it is above having to comply with both a Supreme Court decision and the Civil Rights Act and that with a minimum of subterfuge and retro-engineering it can go about business as usual until the political environment becomes friendlier. It is also clear that Harvard, as a matter of self-governance, lacks the will, if not the capacity to stop engaging in unlawful discrimination. Many of the ‘voices of reason’ within Harvard oversaw and abetted discriminatory practices at Harvard. ...
It’s been hinted at, but part of MAGA’s vision for higher ed may include redistributing educational and research funding to state institutions in regions of the country that have undergone the most post-industrial decline. It’s unclear why federal technical and biomed research funding needs to be concentrated among a handful of ideologically hostile private institutions in the Northeast. ...
Part of MAGA’s agenda may be to shrink the footprint of biomed and technical research and let’s be honest: they have a rationale for doing so, given both the magnitude of the catastrophes we’ve engineered and our failure to own up to them in a meaningful way.
(This is obviously about Fauci's virus and the dangerous and defective mandated mRNA injections. - Patrick)
In defending itself, Harvard has enumerated its responsibilities and obligations, to science to social justice to international governance, but is unable to account for why it seems to offer so little to such a broad swath of the American public who see it as an enemy and for which it has no legitimizing narrative.
It’s been hinted at, but part of MAGA’s vision for higher ed may include redistributing educational and research funding to state institutions in regions of the country that have undergone the most post-industrial decline. It’s unclear why federal technical and biomed research funding needs to be concentrated among a handful of ideologically hostile private institutions in the Northeast. ...
Part of MAGA’s agenda may be to shrink the footprint of biomed and technical research and let’s be honest: they have a rationale for doing so, given both the magnitude of the catastrophes we’ve engineered and our failure to own up to them in a meaningful way.
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.
The Journal marveled that China’s communist party prefers to send its officials to US institutions for governance training. What does it mean when our premier colleges are the top finishing schools where up-and-coming communists learn how to be better Marxists?
Most humiliating of all, Harvard has become the new home of Alpha Kappa Marx, the revolutionaries’ party-school pick:
For decades, the party has sent thousands of mid-career and senior bureaucrats to
pursue executive training and postgraduate studies on U.S. campuses, with Harvard
University a coveted destination described by some in China as the top "party school"
outside the country.
Not coincidentally, the story also reported that last Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the Administration will soon severely restrict visa applications from China, and “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”
According to the story, Harvard-trained comrades include Xi Jinping’s top trade negotiator, a former vice president of China, and several sitting Politburo members. In 2010, President Xi’s daughter even attended under an alias. While her daddy prepared to rule the world’s largest dictatorship and assume the reins of America’s geopolitical enemy, get this: Harvard helped hide her.
“Harvard administrators and some faculty members,” the Journal coolly reported, “were aware of her identity.” Thanks a lot, Harvard.
While American manufacturing collapsed, IP theft soared, and the U.S. lost entire sectors to China’s strategic trade practices, America’s top universities enthusiastically invited CCP officials into the inner sanctum— training new communists in public policy, governance, negotiation, and national development. ...
In other words, it’s been lies all the way down. The same schools that have long claimed to stand for “liberal democracy” are actually training the next generation of Chinese Communists— on how to outcompete liberal democracies using our own tools against us.
Nor does the academic tolerance extend both ways. In Democrats’ America, if you’re a domestic dissenter —say, a parent questioning school boards, a scientist skeptical of pharma funding, or a Facebooker posting unapproved memes— you’re labeled a threat to democracy, deplatformed, and probably put on a watchlist.
But if you’re a high-ranking Chinese Communist official, you’re no threat to democracy at all. You get a Harvard fellowship, a guided tour of the State Department, and trained seal-like applause from the Kennedy School faculty for your “innovative governance.”
Reuters ran a story headlined, “Trump suspends entry of international students studying at Harvard.” Not only that, but according to a leaked cable “seen by Reuters,” the State Department ordered all its consular missions to enforce additional vetting of visa applicants looking to travel to Harvard for any reason. ...
Harvard can cry all it wants about the First Amendment and retaliation, but foreign nationals have no constitutional right to enter the U.S., and institutions like Harvard have no constitutional right to demand visas be granted to their applicants. Courts have explicitly ruled this. Not only that, but Harvard is deep underwater right now in the public’s jaded eye: antisemitism scandals, imploding diversity deans, corpse controversies, plagiarism problems, lying ethics professors, remedial math classes, Chinese cash pipelines, and widespread mockery over grade inflation and ideological monoculture.
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