Gay committed plagiarism but didn't "steal" her ideas or fabricate quotes to support them. She absolutely should've resigned and is unfit to lead an academic institution but falsifying cancer research data is on a whole other level than lifting quotes.

She has a long history of defending and covering up on behalf of people who do forge data though:

https://www.karlstack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-claudine-gay

For another perspective:

https://wset.com/news/nation-world/legal-scholar-livid-over-...

Prepare for downvotes and rebuttals if you say anything that even remotely disparages Harvard University on HN.

Personally, I think it's quite scandalous that Harvard gave the world's most famous sex-trafficker his own office. I mean, that's the last person on Earth you'd want to give access to a steady supply of young girls and boys, but that's exactly what Harvard did.

And I've been told that we're not supposed to hold Harvard accountable because nobody knew what Epstein was doing... The heads of one of the world's most prestigious universities were all too naive to realize what was going on. Perhaps they thought the girls at his parties were just really friendly? Or perhaps they don't want to admit to anything they'd be legally liable for?

Many of the academic frauds in question predate Gay's deanship by over a decade.