there is whole thingy in britain where academic mr. arday was “revealed” to be a plagiarist, was hounded by media (including local fedcobin - novara media), and then was found dead.

one mr. cofnas (in the screenshot) has been behind this episode, and had whole of eugenicist podcast appearances and text work behind him, so that might be the animus behind that crusade of his.

ms. hossenfelder comment strongly implies she agrees with “scientific” views of one mr. cofnas (but of course with such nebulousness, she might say side of science is opposed to such views, if her patreon count were to drop precipitously)

p.s. the whole episode is bad vibes all round, i believe the plagiarism part is likely correct, but all the worst people (with still worse intentions) hounded the guy for what is really trivial matter. literally the worst he may achieved is getting a nothing job from it, while some people manage to mislead whole fields of science with manufactured images/theories. (like normal academic punishment is blacklisting such people, you can’t get job in academy if you plagiarized/lied in your work intentionally. ^{not so much with sexual harassment and appropriating your underlings results tho}