According to The Post, Clare Locke sent them a second letter denying that Gay was a plagiarist on November 7.
That's while the review by three external scholars into whether Gay had plagiarized was still going on, per Harvard's timeline.
@EmmaJanePettit
The situation remains dynamic, and the involvement of influential figures like
@Obama
may further shape the outcome of this debate
@harvard
@EmmaJanePettit
@CHSommers
This soo funny to me. Poring over old papers like they’re the Zapruder film, trying to prove someone cheated on their papers! At least Zapruder was relevant to what all the fuss was actually about
@EmmaJanePettit
@CHSommers
Often motivated reasoning leads people to form their conclusions in advance of examining evidence. It’s rare, however, for an institution to so openly announce that they’ve already decided their conclusion in advance.