Plagiarist prof Jason Ardays life story is published tomorrow, and it gets more unbelievable by the page

A Cambridge University professor with an unbelievable story of overcoming systemic oppression skyrocketed to stardom.Then, people started to realize his story actually was unbelieveable — in the true sense of the word — and his fabulist tales and academic record fell apart days before his memoir’s publication.“Great and Unfortunate Things” is still slated to hit shelves in the US on Tuesday, published by Simon & Schuster — a deal that, at least according to Arday, was valued at $1.4 million.The book is coming out just three years after the London-born academic became Cambridge’s youngest ever black professor at 37 — proof that, not long after being hired, he sniffed the payday that came with the DEI crews.According to the publisher, his book tells the story of all of his unbelievable triumphs — “without romanticizing the struggle.” Except romanticizing the struggle is the key to Arday’s success.He resigned from his position at Cambridge in early August  after being accused of academic misconduct.

That has triggered scrutiny into his incredible biographical claims — like running 600 miles in six days, not learning to read until he was a teenager, and having a severed pig’s head left at his door.And yet, Simon & Schuster are stuck with, no doubt, many copies of his book, in which he — with the help of a coauthor, of course — tells the very, very unlikely story of his own life. According to reporting by the Atlantic, Arday’s book proposal included unbelievable claims about his wild and crazy life — and ironically framed the book as an “awe-inspiring tale of near mythic proportions.” Now, literally mythic proportions.Crazy stories in the proposal include being in a several-months-long coma after being hit by a car and experiencing “locked in syndrome.” He, apparently, also survived testicular cancer in addition to his previously claimed brain tumor.And he changed details about a thwarted suicide attempt.According t...