The star scholar behind the influential but unhealthy research that claims black infants die more frequently with white doctors, has been plagiarized for years by alleged plagiarism from her own subordinates and soon left her university and founded a multi-million-dollar anti-meritocratic centre in Yepardi.

The rise in academic superstarms in the wake of Professor Rachel Hardeman, University of Minnesota, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, included major media coverage of research into racial bias and maternal and infant mortality, long-term position, and perceptions as one of the time magazines 100 Most Influential People.

Now, two former employees allegedly plagiarized a research proposal that helped her turn her into a rocket for a national figure.

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Hardemann secured Landmark National Health Grant (the only NIH proposal she is the leading author) in 2021, and they argue with the hypotheses and methodology she copied from the mentee paper proposal.

Former mentee claims Hardemann We plagiarized the grant proposal With almost identical language, equations, graphics and even formatted, the university has given up claims of fraud in order to protect the planet. The second employee, co-author of two papers undertaken by NIH Grant, when the employee implemented the Center’s grant proposal through a plagiarism checker;

The third researcher who worked on the NIH project I said it on LinkedIn She shared that she was able to support her claims and struggled to implement the suggestions she said she had written.

Hardemann will leave university on May 14th. At this point, the Center for Anti-Racism Studies for Health Equity (CARHE), the anti-racism center she founded, is May Shotter, sent to staff on Monday and according to an email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The email does not address the plagiarism accusations.

“Rachel Hardemann, Blue Cross, is a professor of health and racial equity, founding director of the Center for Anti-Racial Studies for Health Equity, and concludes her faculty appointment and center leadership at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, May 14, 2025,” the email wrote.

It’s now finished $1.8 million grant It was announced by the university in April 2021 by the National Institute of Child Health. Two months ago, Minnesota Blue Cross and Blue Shield donated $5 million in seed money to create Hardemann’s center. The Center is currently facing an uncertain future.

“In light of Dr. Hardemann’s departure, Dean of Public Health Melinda Pettigrew will be in consultation with other key stakeholders to make decisions about Carhe in the near future,” the email said.

Minnesota Blue Cross Blue Shield did not respond to requests for comment.

A shocking study co-authored by Hardeman, which found that black newborns die more frequently due to huge media coverage and social media chatter that produced doctors’ “voluntary biases.” Altmetric Shows. Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is prominent I’ve quoted Fair admission v as evidence of the benefits of positive actions in her dissenting Supreme Court in 2023.

However, the findings of the study proved to be non-formable in a 2024 Replication Research. Reported in March by the DCNF, the DCNF showed that internal communication between her co-authors obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and that co-authors obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) had important data points buried in the annex of the paper because they “damaged the narrative.” (Related: Exclusive: Researchers x data points that undermine the “story” that white doctors are biased towards black babies)

Hardemann has no medical degree; Her resume will be displayed.

Brigett Davis, senior scientist at Washington University in St. Louis LinkedIn Post On April 10, Hardemann copied her paper proposals when Davis was seeking guidance from a well-known academic in the early stages of her career. Davis was hired to work at Hardemann’s Center for Health Equity from November 2022 to March 2024.

Hardemann exempts her from the obvious copying of the mentee’s research proposal, saying she was going to cite an unpublished job, the two employees allege. employee Also Claim Two internal investigations by the University of Minnesota Department of Research Integrity dismissed allegations of plagiarism and called them “an honest error in attribution.”

The University of Minnesota and the Faculty of Public Health will not comment beyond internal emails. Hardemann and her center did not respond to repeated requests for comments. The Department of Integrity of the Study did not respond to requests for comment.

“I was being emotionally manipulated.”

Davis initially thought Hardemann was happy to say, “Academics will navigate the hellish landscape for black women.” Davis shared his paper prospectus with his own mentor in November 2019 for feedback.

The central premise of Davis’s paper was the hypothetical link between infant mortality and police brutality. Was the shooting of Mike Brown by St. Louis police in August 2014 environmentally effective against the city’s new black people?

Davis said Hardemann “plagiarized” the premise of her paper in January 2020. She said Hardeman simply remodeled the same research question to focus on Filando Castile’s death in August 2016. (Related: Minnesota rejects Trump’s order to remove Day from school)

“So, when I say ‘Verbatim’ she swapped Find+ in my documentation, replacing all instances of ‘Mike Brown’ with all instances of ‘St. Louis’ with ‘Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis’ and ‘Minneapolis’, Davis said,” Davis said.

The documents that claim that the two documents that Davis argue that are being compared side-by-side is Hardeman’s research proposal for the NIH and her own previous paper’s prospectus, suggesting that their central hypotheses are nearly identical.

“We assume that infants pregnant or born in the St. Louis area during civil unrest in Ferguson were at a higher risk of low birth weight and premature compared to those who were pregnant the previous year,” reads Davis’s paper’s prospectus. “I suppose that the most strongly influences between civil anxiety (spatial proximity) and black women regardless of physical proximity (social proximity).”

The documents Davis identified as a proposal for Hardeman’s grant reflect the largely verbatim language.

“Our working hypothesis was that pregnancy or birth infants were at a higher risk during civil unrest. [preterm birth] and [low birthweight] The document states that “we assume that its effects are assumed between civil unrest (spatial proximity) and black women, regardless of anxiety (social proximity).”

Davis said her career was a “free fall.”

Repeated requests to Davis by DCNF viewed the original document and did not receive a reply for the interview.

However, two other researchers who worked with Hardeman on the NIH project – Jedson and Naomi Harada Tiden – argued Posts on LinkedIn and Blog post Her experience with Hardemann gave her credibility in Davis’s explanation, saying Hardemann had a surprising lack of direct involvement and knowledge of her own research.

Judson, who co-authored two papers undertaken by Hardemann’s NIH Grant, said in a blog post she struggled to implement the Center’s grants without guidance from Hardemann or her top aides. The plagiarism checker revealed that the Hardemann grant proposal brought together ideas from multiple sources, she said. Judson said he believes this is why there is little help in research.

“Each grant had several paragraphs copied verbatim from other papers. “I finally understood why I couldn’t implement the grant I was in charge of. I understood why the method sections didn’t make sense. Each paragraph was plagiarized from different qualitative papers and combined into one section using different methodologies that were not used at the same time.”

Working at Hardemann’s center from June 2022 to September 2024, Judson likened the approach of baking a bowl of bread by stitching two different recipes together.

“It’s like trying to include directions to make sourdough and focaccia into one recipe. And what difference does that make when you say that they’re both bread?” Judson wrote in a blog post.

Sinden also received most guidance from Hardemann and her top aides on how to conduct the research. Sinden was a researcher at the Minnesota Population Center from August 2021 to July 2022, and was back from August 2023 to March 2024. The Minnesota Population Center has supported the implementation of the Anti-Atomic Mechanics Research Center for research proposals on health equities.

Shinden I said that She worked on the NIH grant (also called “R01” in relation to the three characters starting all NIH grant numbers), but Hardemann was unable to perform the “AIM 1 analysis” of her own research proposal.

“I can personally support Dr. Davis’s account of the plagiarism of her work,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “I took part in the R01 in question and was confused when someone who officially contributed to the grant couldn’t explain AIM 1 analysis to me or point me to someone who could.”

By late 2022, Hardemann and her centre leadership had recruited Davis to carry out the very research objectives that were plagiarized from her work, she said.

Still a new recruit, Davis quickly recognized the decisions of ideas, proposed equations, language, and even arbitrary-average formats.

“I would say by Rachel that ‘work was too important’ and if I said anything, I’d be questioning the entire empirical study of racism,” Davis said. “As time passed, it became clear that I was being emotionally manipulated.”

a presentation The alleged plagiarism edit Judson stole includes four pages showing the same language and method.

Hademann encouraged staff to delete emails that could be subject to the Freedom of Information Act, Davis argued. (Related: Exclusive: The University spent over $200,000 on doctors teaching “diversity” courses that health care is racist)

“An honest error”

Davis writes that when he tried to raise issues with university leadership and research integrity stakeholders, the university sided with well-known researchers.

“The Honest Office of the University of Minnesota – on two separate occasions, we found out that Rachel’s part had no plagiarism, but rather “honest mistakes,”” Davis wrote. “you know [School of Public Health] Dean tweaked me to keep me silent. ”

Davis expressed confusion about how someone would cite an unpublished proposal submitted as a PhD requirement.

Meanwhile, Hardemann and the Center’s leadership denounced Davis and Judson for the center’s issues, Davis said.

“She and her leadership team began using the words “hostile” and “difficult to work together,” she writes.

Davis said Hardeman is encouraging staff to delete emails in violation of record keeping laws amid serious internal concerns.

“Sometimes, she encouraged us to delete emails. As UMN is subject to FOIA (she confirmed in her inbox that there were no more emails mentioning me), Rachel took a vacation and all other Kaere leadership left,” she wrote.

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