[YouTube] Only please to call it “research”. If it was good enough for the great Lobachevsky…
The Alpha News article — it reads like a parody, but nowadays the joke sites fall rapidly behind reality:
The University of Minnesota will close its Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE) on May 30, 2025, following the departure of its founding director, Rachel Hardeman, amid allegations of plagiarism.
“We are closing the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE), effective May 30, 2025. We are currently assessing and reimagining the important work of health equity research and action as we also work closely with our funding partners to align priorities and strategic direction,” Melinda Pettigrew, dean of the School of Public Health, said in a staff email viewed by Alpha News.
The center, launched in 2021 with a $5 million donation from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, aimed to study the health effects of structural racism, according to the Daily Caller.
Hardeman, who was named to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2024, announced her exit last month, as former employees alleged that she plagiarized a 2021 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant proposal, according to the Daily Caller’s report.
Brigette Davis, employed at CARHE from November 2022 to March 2024, claimed Hardeman copied her dissertation proposal “verbatim,” the Daily Caller reported.
“When I say ‘verbatim’ I mean, she performed a find+replace in my document, and replaced all instances of ‘Mike Brown’ with ‘Philando Castile,’ and all instances of ‘St. Louis, Missouri’ with ‘Minneapolis, Minnesota,’ and submitted this to the NIH as if it were her own,” Davis wrote on LinkedIn.
Jé Judson, who worked at CARHE from June 2022 to September 2024, alleged the center’s grant proposals “lit up like a Christmas tree” on a plagiarism checker, the Daily Caller reported. Naomi Harada Thyden, a former researcher at the Minnesota Population Center supporting CARHE, corroborated Davis’s claims, according to the Daily Caller’s report.
Another study co-authored by Hardeman found black newborns experience lower mortality rates when cared for by black physicians, but the “study’s findings proved irreproducible in a 2024 replication study,” the Daily Caller reported.
Hardeman published an article in the Star Tribune saying her departure from the university wasn’t related to the plagiarism allegation, which she attributed to an “attribution error” that she “addressed quickly.”
In a statement to KSTP, Hardeman said the closure was not a “reflection of CARHE’s work” but of the university’s “failure to support, protect, or sustain antiracism work when it becomes inconvenient.”
The university confirmed one closed complaint against Hardeman exists but said privacy laws prevent it from sharing specifics.
“The University of Minnesota School of Public Health remains strongly committed to our values and advancing health equity, which is central to who we are and how we teach, conduct research, and engage with communities,” Pettigrew said in a statement shared with Alpha News.
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#1 “We are closing the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE), effective May 30, 2025. We are currently assessing and reimagining the important work of health equity research and action as we also work closely with our funding partners to align priorities and strategic direction,” Melinda Pettigrew, dean of the School of Public Health, said in a staff email viewed by Alpha News.
I'd ask for a translation but I'm thinking it's probably just gibberish and doesn't mean anything at all.
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#2 $5 million donation from Blue Cross and Blue Shield...the folks who raise our rates every year without fail.
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