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A Native American Professor Who Supposedly Died Of Coronavirus Appears To Be Completely Made Up


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2020 Sep 3, 10:41am   671 views  5 comments

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News that a Native American professor died Friday of coronavirus after her university forced her to teach a seminar in April prompted dozens of angry reactions from academics and journalists. But according to the university and numerous people who followed the story, the professor and her supposed death appear to be completely made up.

The Twitter accounts of Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin and the Hopi Arizona State University (ASU) professor known as @Sciencing_Bi were suspended by Monday morning for violating Twitter’s “spam and platform manipulation policies,” a Twitter spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an email. The suspension came after McLaughlin, who is a former faculty member at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Matrix Biology, posted a lengthy eulogy for @Sciencing_Bi on Friday.

The ASU professor had criticized the university for forcing her to return to work during in April during pandemic before she supposedly contracted and then died from the virus, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. However, ASU had transitioned to virtual learning in March, according to The Arizona Republic.

“She was a fierce protector of people,” McLaughlin tweeted after announcing the Hopi professor’s death, according to Twitter screenshots. “She let me take my shoulders away from my ears knowing she was meaner and more loving than everyone else.”

She added: “She changed so much of how I thought about advocacy and power.”

After McLaughlin announced the professor’s apparent death, several scientists subsequently posted eulogies for the professor, who was well-known on social media. California State University Northridge biologist Jeremy Yoder tweeted that he is “seriously considering returning to religion just so I can believe in a hell for Donald Trump to go to” in response to the announcement of the professor’s apparent coronavirus death.

“The death of @Sciencing_Bi is on the hands of those who compelled her to teach in the midst of COVID,” tweeted California State University Dominguez Hills biologist Terry McGlynn, The Daily Beast reported.

Some irregularities with @Sciencing_Bi’s death soon became apparent, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

“Several people, including reporters, have reached out with questions for details about Sciencing_Bi’s death, her identity, or why parts of her story don’t add up,” Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, a professor at University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, tweeted Sunday. “I don’t have answers. I don’t have access to any more information than is on her account. I’m sorry.”
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“Unfortunately, this appears to be a hoax,” said Jerry Gonzalez, an ASU spokesperson, according to The Daily Beast. Gonzalez added that the university was unable to verify the existence of @Sciencing_Bi.

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, the ASU Department of American Indian Studies head said he had not heard of @Sciencing_Bi, but that he would likely have known her if she was Hopi, according to The Arizona Republic.

“From what I can tell, the claims that are attributed to @Sciencing_Bi are a hoax, and a sick one at that,” Gilbert told The Republic.

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https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/04/metoostem-founder-fabricated-account-native-american-scientist-died-coronavirus/

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1   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2020 Sep 3, 10:49am  

But just as with Jussie Smollett, it COULD HAVE happened.

Reality is racist!

Cancel realty!
2   Ceffer   2020 Sep 3, 12:49pm  

Better a successful hoax than an inconvenient reality. I would say currently the USA information energy is 90 percent hoax and 10 percent reality. Congratulations, alphabet agencies and Globalists, only 10 percent to go. Just got to plug up, censor, and struggle session all those independent news leaks.

They've killed the reputation of science and medicine, making them just another agitprop convenience for Gatesians, Global Warmists and Big Pharma. Good work.
3   Shaman   2020 Sep 3, 1:57pm  

If Leftists can’t use hoaxes to prove their points, how will they ever find evidence of their theories in reality?
4   Patrick   2020 Sep 3, 6:03pm  

Eric Holder says
“From what I can tell, the claims that are attributed to @Sciencing_Bi are a hoax, and a sick one at that,” Gilbert told The Republic.


Not a sick hoax.

A very educational hoax.

Sadly, the lesson will mostly be lost on the left.
5   Ceffer   2020 Sep 3, 6:43pm  

Shaman says
If Leftists can’t use hoaxes to prove their points, how will they ever find evidence of their theories in reality?

To the Leftists, no delusional screed is falsifiable and reality is irrelevant to the exercise of power over the slaves....er, People.

You get rid of the falsifiable by liquidating the source.

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