Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists

Christopher Rufo, credited with helping oust school's first Black president, touted critic associated with scientific racists'

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 Gay's use - and potential misuse - of data in her PhD thesis" in an interview published in his newsletter and on the Manhattan Institute's City Journal website last Friday.