Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard's Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists [View all]
A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute thinktank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or scientific racists.
Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as a Danish data scientist who has raised new questions about Claudine Gays use and potential misuse of data in her PhD thesis in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institutes City Journal website last Friday.
He did not tell readers that a paper featuring Pallesens own statistical work in collaboration with the eugenicist researchers has been subject to scathing expert criticism for its faulty methods, and characterized as white nationalism by another academic critic.
The revelations once again raise questions about the willingness of Rufo a major ally of Ron DeSantis and powerful culture warrior in Republican politics to cultivate extremists in the course of his political crusades.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard
Surprise, surprise.....Chris Rufo hangs with the racists.